Reopening as part of a review of closed paper cuts.
** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
Status: Invalid => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/684807
Title:
There is no easy way to make a partition automatically mount on boot
Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
Confirmed
Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Mounting a 2nd partition is easy -- just open it from the "Places"
window. However, making a partition automatically mount on boot is
much harder than it should be. The only two ways (I can find) to make
it happen is to either manually edit /etc/fstab or by adding a mount
command to the startup programs list. Both of these solutions are
unintuitive and far too complicated for most users.
Editing /etc/fstab is too difficult because it requires the user to:
-Know what /etc/fstab is, let alone where it is and how to edit it (and it
requires root)
-Know the syntax for a line in /etc/fstab
-Know the device name for the partition (/dev/sdb1? /dev/sdb2? /dev/sdc1?)
Adding a mount command to startup programs is too difficult because it
requires the user to:
-Know the syntax for mount
-Know the device name for the partition (/dev/sdb1? /dev/sdb2? /dev/sdc1?)
-Manually create a folder in /media (which requires root) and give it the
proper permissions (which it won't have by default)
Making a partition boot on startup should be as simple as:
1) Right-click on a mounted partition and click "Properties"
2) In the properties window click on a check box somewhere that says "Mount
on startup".
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