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cyberius

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2008-08-30

Posts: 97

Mount all devices automatically at boot - how to do it?

Hello,

* I use compiz as standalone window manager and start it with

exec ck-launch-session fusion-icon

* I'm in the groups

lp wheel hal video audio optical storage power users

* my rc.conf loads those daemons

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network hal netfs crond alsa)

* I read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev and copied those rules from there to /etc/udev/rules.d/

Mount under /media; use partition label if present (File: /etc/udev/rules.d/11-media-by-label-auto-mount.rules)
Mount under /media; use partition label if present; ntfs-3g (File: /etc/udev/rules.d/10-my-media-automount.rules)
Mount SD cards (File: /etc/udev/rules.d/11-sd-cards-auto-mount.rules)

Problem: I have those windows partitions:

ls /dev/sd*
/dev/sda  /dev/sda1  /dev/sda2  /dev/sdb  /dev/sdb1  /dev/sdb2  /dev/sdb3

I can mount them manually with e.g.

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/dl/

But i want all my partitions to be mounted allready when I log in, so I can acess them with every file manager I want. This doesn't work! (Nothing in /media or /mnt on boot, Why?) Also every usb-harddrive I attach should mount automaticelly.

Why doesn't it work? Do you need more info? Thanks

benob

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Registered: 2008-11-11

Posts: 187

Re: Mount all devices automatically at boot - how to do it?

I don't know why it doesn't work, but to mount them at boot time, I'd put them in /etc/fstab. It would look like this:

/dev/sda1              /media/windows1       ntfs-3g    defaults                0      1

You may need to change "defaults" to something more appropriate, and add the module for ntfs to your rc.conf

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Mount all devices automatically at boot - how to do it?

Search the wiki for 'Hal' and then read the entire article especially the Troubleshooting part. The information is out there.

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andonuts_388

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Registered: 2010-05-23

Posts: 15

Re: Mount all devices automatically at boot - how to do it?

Edit your /etc/fstab and add those devices. You can automatically do this for ntfs partitions by first installing ntfs-3g if you already haven't:

pacman -S ntfs-3g

then installing ntfs-config which is available from the AUR

Run ntfs-config and configure the ntfs drives detected.