Further to comment #7 I'm belatedly closing the Papercuts task as "Won't Fix". Any request for such functionality should be raised in an upstream bug report as a "Wishlist" against the appropriate project or package. Any successful request will in due course find its way into Ubuntu.
** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Importance: Undecided => Wishlist -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/684807 Title: There is no easy way to make a partition automatically mount on boot Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Won't Fix Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix 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". To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/684807/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp