No automount in Kubuntu 7.10?[solved]

[bigblop]

I have just installed Kubuntu 7.10 from scratch. When I enter KDE my Maxtor USB2 disk is not mounted automatically. I have used Ubuntu for some years now and there automount worked fine.

If I open Konqueror and in the address bar type:

media:/

I can see the maxtor disk. If I click it it gets mounted. But is there someway to make Kubuntu do the automatically?

I have also tried to right-click the device and choose "mount automatically" but that does not work either.

[Fintan]

Re: No automount in Kubuntu 7.10?

kmenu->system settings->advanced->harddisk&files->admin mode->right click on the partition you wish to edit give it a mount point and activate mount on boot.

[bigblop]

Re: No automount in Kubuntu 7.10?

Done exactly what you described but it still does not auto mount.

Should I edit something in the /etc/fstab file?

[Fintan]

Re: No automount in Kubuntu 7.10?

Can you post your fstab and maybe the partition you want automounting and your system specs?

Edit:
Maybe I forgot one point. You will also have to activate that partition in harddisk&files. If it is activated then it is mounted.

Edit2:

I can see the maxtor disk. If I click it it gets mounted. But is there someway to make Kubuntu do the automatically?

If you can see the contents of that disk it just means that it is already mounted. If it wasn't mounted you would not be able to see the contents.

So, what do you mean by auto mounting?

[bigblop]

Re: No automount in Kubuntu 7.10?

sudo fdisk -l returns this:

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2c412c40

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 3054 24531223+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 3055 7805 38162407+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda3 7806 9598 14402272+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 9599 9729 1052257+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda5 3055 3976 7405933+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 3977 7805 30756411 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sda: 122.9 GB, 122941341696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5dcdc2ba

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 14927 119901096 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda3 14928 14946 152617+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)




And its:
/dev/sda1 1 14927 119901096 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

that I would like to auto mount. My /etc/stab contains:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hda3
UUID=511c1857-79b8-4577-8b37-3d6a4ca4aaeb / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
# /dev/hda1
UUID=48A87E84A87E6FF4 /media/hda1 ntfs defaults,umask=007,uid=0,gid=46,auto,rw,nouser 0 1
# /dev/hda5
UUID=33e5176f-27d6-c738-533a-0d727126e577 /media/hda5 ext3 nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2
# /dev/hda6
UUID=8B3534AC938BF180 /media/hda6 ntfs defaults,umask=007,uid=0,gid=46,auto,rw,nouser 0 1
# /dev/hda4
UUID=f414a4d8-93d3-428f-8c2b-95b1944763a4 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/maxtor auto users,atime,noauto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0


My system is:
AMD X2 3800+ AM2
1GB PC6400 DDRII RAM
Asus 7600GS silent 256 MB
Mainboard: Asus M2V

[bigblop]

Re: No automount in Kubuntu 7.10?

Can you post your fstab and maybe the partition you want automounting and your system specs?

Edit:
Maybe I forgot one point. You will also have to activate that partition in harddisk&files. If it is activated then it is mounted.

Edit2:

I can see the maxtor disk. If I click it it gets mounted. But is there someway to make Kubuntu do the automatically?

If you can see the contents of that disk it just means that it is already mounted. If it wasn't mounted you would not be able to see the contents.

So, what do you mean by auto mounting?

I mean that I don't have to click "enable" manually each time I enter Kubuntu to mount the disk.

Did you mean that the disk should be enabled before choosing mount point and "mount on startup"?

[Fintan]

Re: No automount in Kubuntu 7.10?

Try editing your fstab with kdesudo kate by doing:
alt+f2->kdesudo kate->password and changing this:

/dev/sda1 /media/maxtor auto users,atime,noauto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0

to this:

/dev/sda1 /media/maxtor auto users,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0

Note the change form noauto to auto

[bigblop]

Re: No automount in Kubuntu 7.10?

thanks, both procedures worked!

[Fintan]

Re: No automount in Kubuntu 7.10?

Glad to be of help and welcome to the party

Could you please mark this as solved. This helps others

[bigblop]

Re: No automount in Kubuntu 7.10?

Maybe I am blind but how do I mark it solved?

[Fintan]

Re: No automount in Kubuntu 7.10?

No, you are not blind. Go back to the first post you made and click modify. Edit the title line to say [solved] at the end.

we like typing, .......sometimes

[onortosu]

Re: No automount in Kubuntu 7.10?[solved]

I have automount problems with gutsy as well, but the above solution doesn't work for CDROMs, USB drives, etc. Anyone know what broke in that regard? This is a brand new install, but on the same laptop I used to have feisty and it worked fine there out of the box.

Thanks