Ubuntu – Automounting partitions on 1TB external hard disk

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I am on Kubuntu 12.04.

I have five labelled ext4 partitions on an external removable 1 TB external USB hard drive.

When the drive is plugged in, a box pops up, asking me what I want to do for each partition. If I elect to use the dolphin file manager, it mounts the relevant partition on /media/LABEL where LABEL is the label of that partition. Interestingly, the directories on /media disappear after the external drive is ejected.

To enable automated backups, I want to find out if the mounting can be done automatically without having to click on the popup box to select the dolphin file manager? Essentially, I wish to:

  1. automount each partition on USB plugin on /media/LABEL as before where the directories under /media are created automatically on the fly; and

  2. On ejection, automatically unmount partitions and remove the directories under /media.

Thanks.

Best Answer

This should be the answer to your question.

Under device notifier settings there is an option to select a particular device, which has been previously mounted, and set it to 'Automount on Attach'.

If this solution shouldn't be sufficient (e.g. because Kubuntu still requires root permissions), you can also try this thread. PySDM looks a great tool.

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