[clug] 2nd drive and auto mountiing

[Paul Rands]

Hi Guys,

I have a PC running Linux Mint Mate 17 and have a small
dilemma I have yet to solve via forums.

I have both the Dropbox and
Copy agents running on my PC, and they are pointing to folders on a 1TB
drive installed on the machine, rather than the default boot drive
(which is a small hybrid drive).

The problem I get is these agents
won't see their respective folders until I open up the file manager and
start browsing the folders and files.

I have been looking at forums
and tried a few things including changing settings using the Disks GUI
and also manually changing the config files in an editor to auto mount
this drive but get nowhere. I have tried both naming the volume without
and with spaces and haven't had any change either.

Any ideas on what I
should be doing to solve this? It's one of a small handful of issues
that are preventing enjoyment of using Mint, and probably the most
annoying.

Thanks in advance, as always

[Hal Ashburner]

Hey Paul,

If you've got a permanent drive in the box, have an fstab entry for it
so it's mounted when you boot.

I have one mounted under /data
sudo mkdir /data
Find the uuid by doing
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/

for me it's uuid pointing to sdb1.

Put a line specifying the uuid, the mount point (/data/) the
filesystem (for me ext4) and the options relevant for the filesystem.

eg

UUID=837933c7-a245-41e0-8a74-76d0cfd93c69 /data ext4
defaults 1 2


if you type mount, when it's mounted by nautilus when you browse it
you should be able to see the relevant mount options that do whatever
nautilus does there and just say "do that" when it boots.

Post by Paul Rands
Hi Guys,
I have a PC running Linux Mint Mate 17 and have a small
dilemma I have yet to solve via forums.
I have both the Dropbox and
Copy agents running on my PC, and they are pointing to folders on a 1TB
drive installed on the machine, rather than the default boot drive
(which is a small hybrid drive).
The problem I get is these agents
won't see their respective folders until I open up the file manager and
start browsing the folders and files.
I have been looking at forums
and tried a few things including changing settings using the Disks GUI
and also manually changing the config files in an editor to auto mount
this drive but get nowhere. I have tried both naming the volume without
and with spaces and haven't had any change either.
Any ideas on what I
should be doing to solve this? It's one of a small handful of issues
that are preventing enjoyment of using Mint, and probably the most
annoying.
Thanks in advance, as always
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