Ubuntu – No HDD device mount icons on Nautilus when run nautilus non root in Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver

The solution is to change the mount point to /mnt/"something". Modify your fstab and it shouldn't show the unmount option any longer.

Then you may bind mount it to the directory you want:

UUID=your_uuid_here /mnt/DATA ext4       defaults        0       2
/mnt/DATA             /home/yrogirg/DATA   none bind 0 0

You can mount your partitions automatically on startup.

A very good tutorial on Ubuntu wiki on how to achieve it is given here.

You can also edit your /etc/fstab file, however it is more complex and generally not recommended if you've less experience.

/etc/fstab contains information of where your partitions and storage devices should be mounted and how.

The Ubuntu wiki also explains how you can edit the fstab file: here.

Additional References: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

The program that causes the nautilus to show the devices is gvfs-gdu-volume.

Check if it's running:

sudo ps -e | grep gvfs-gdu-volume

I got the following output:

1983 ?        00:00:00 gvfs-gdu-volume

If not, reinstall the package gvfs:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall gvfs