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Issue
I have a Linux Mint installation. Every time that I boot, I need to manually mount the two partitions on my computer(New volume D and Drive C). If I don't do this, these drives don't show up anywhere. I want to know if there is some way to automate this process.

Goal
Automatically mounting all the partitions on the hard disk each time I boot.

Specs
Linux Mint 14 dual boot with Windows XP SP3

IcyFlame
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  • http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=135082,http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/92 – Eugene S Apr 14 '13 at 12:37
  • As discussed in the accepted previous answer, the /etc/fstab file will help you accomplish that. Please take a look at [genfstab](https://projects.archlinux.org/arch-install-scripts.git/tree/genfstab.in) which, as suggested, uses blkid to create one automatically. – Rany Albeg Wein Apr 14 '13 at 18:29

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You can do this by the simplest way. Go to:

  • Menu -> Disks (app)
  • Select the volume you want to mount, and click on its options
  • Select "Edit Mount Options" -> And make sure you select "Mount at Startup" in the drive.
slm
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You can do this through the file /etc/fstab. Take a look at this link. This tutorial also has good details.

Example steps

First you need to find out the UUID of the hard drives. You can use the command blkid for this. For example:

% sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: TYPE="ntfs" UUID="A0F0582EF0580CC2"
/dev/sda2: UUID="8c2da865-13f4-47a2-9c92-2f31738469e8" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda3: TYPE="swap" UUID="5641913f-9bcc-4d8a-8bcb-ddfc3159e70f"
/dev/sda5: UUID="FAB008D6B0089AF1" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="32c61b65-f2f8-4041-a5d5-3d5ef4182723" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb2: UUID="41c22818-fbad-4da6-8196-c816df0b7aa8" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"

The output from the blkid command above can be used to identify the hard drive when adding entries to /etc/fstab.

Next you need to edit the /etc/fstab file. The lines in this file are organized as follows:

UUID={YOUR-UID}    {/path/to/mount/point}               {file-system-type}    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1

Now edit the file:

% sudo vi /etc/fstab

And add a file like this, for example:

UUID=41c22818-fbad-4da6-8196-c816df0b7aa8  /disk2p2      ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1

Save the file and then reprocess the file with the mount -a command.

Windows partitions

To mount an ntfs partition you'll need to do something like this in your /etc/fstab file:

/dev/sda2   /mnt/excess ntfs-3g    permissions,locale=en_US.utf8    0   2
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  • the two partitions `/dev/sda5` and `dev/sda6` are not listed in `fstab` file and in the `blkid` command. why? – IcyFlame Apr 14 '13 at 12:42
  • okay. i got it. it is because it is a windows partition that is there in /media – IcyFlame Apr 14 '13 at 12:45
  • Windows partitions you'll need to use the dev/sda* to mount them, also you'll need to specify ntfs-3g for the file-system-type I believe. – slm Apr 14 '13 at 12:56
  • This answer does not address OP's request. it provides instructions on how to manually configure mint to re-mount on boot a specific set of partitions on a specific set of drives. The question was how to automount all partitions on all drives. What OP needs is a script that searches for all available partitions and then mounts any it finds. Such scripts do exist – taltamir Jul 20 '22 at 19:53
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If you have a lot of partitions to be mounted, maybe you need a script like I did.


# ! python
# mount all partition by neoedmund
from subprocess import Popen
from subprocess import PIPE

def getCol(col, line):
    p1 = line.find(col)
    if p1<0 : return ""
    p2 = p1 + len(col) + 1
    p3 = line.find('"',p2+1)
    return line[p2+1:p3]

data_stream = Popen(["/bin/lsblk", "-P", "-o", "FSTYPE,UUID,MOUNTPOINT,KNAME"], stdout=PIPE)
data=[]
for line in data_stream.stdout:
    fstype = getCol("FSTYPE", line)
    if fstype=="": continue # no fs
    mountpoint = getCol("MOUNTPOINT", line)
    if mountpoint!="":continue  # already mounted   
    uuid = getCol("UUID", line)
    kname = getCol("KNAME", line)
    data.append((kname, uuid))

print("### mount script ###")
for (kname,uuid) in data:
    print("mkdir /media/%s-%s"%(kname, uuid))
    print("mount /dev/%s /media/%s-%s" %(kname, kname, uuid))

print("### umount script ###")
for (kname,uuid) in data:
    print("umount /dev/%s" %(kname))

It is a python script, depends on "/bin/lsblk" , save the output to two shell scripts for mount and umount.

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for i in $(lsblk -r |awk '{ print $1 }'|grep -v md |grep -v loop |grep .*[[:digit:]]|sort|uniq;); 
do
    if [ -z  "$(grep  $i /proc/mounts)" ]
    then  
        mkdir /mnt/$i;
        mount /dev/$i /mnt/$i
    fi
done
John WH Smith
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anonymous coward
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    It would be helpful if you could explain exactly what your command does. – dhag Mar 25 '15 at 19:14
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    Putting a huge sequence of commands and control structures on the same line doesn't really make your code a *one-liner*. It just makes it unecessarily harder to understand... – John WH Smith Mar 25 '15 at 19:36
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Backup of current fstab:

#cp -a /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bk

process the output of lsblk -f using sed and awk and redirect output to fstab:

#lsblk -f|sed 's/\[SWAP]/swap /g'|awk '/(-)/{printf"UUID=%-36s %-23s %-7s defaults 
           0 0\n", $3, ($4==""?mnt"NR:$4), $2}'>/etc/fstab

mount the new mount points by invoking 

#mount -a
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