AutoMounting Disks at Startup

miroamr78 · 2014-08-23 19:40:04

I know how to mount disks at startup, you go to the disks utility and configure mount options accordingly for each disk you want to mount on startup ..
Well, when I rebooted to test that, the disks were mounted but when I tried to access them, I couldn't. After navigating to them from the command line and issuing an "ls -lh" command I noticed it was owned by root. I tried to change permissions (chmod), owners (chown), but that didn't help. Note: I know the root password ..

Last edited by miroamr78 (2014-08-23 19:40:47)

MoonSwan · 2014-08-23 19:48:24

I (and all other would-be helpers) have no idea what you're talking about. What "disk utility" are you referring to? Do you use a WM or DE? What are your computer's specs? How about a listing of your disks and the /etc/fstab file (at a minimum)? We can't help you if we are unable to ascertain some very basic facts.

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miroamr78 · 2014-08-23 20:02:03

@MoonSwan I mean the gnome-disks program

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emeres · 2014-08-23 20:15:18

You are going to $(echo ssip | rev) off moderators or the administrator. Read the forum etiquette. You need to mount ntfs volumes with the permissions you want to have, using dmask and fmask for example.

man mount.ntfs-3g

miroamr78 · 2014-08-23 20:21:05

@emeres: I know how to mount them. I can access the data on the disks by mounting them manually. However, when I mark them for auto mounting on boot using gnome-disks, the folders they're mounted at are owned by root and have the permissions: drxw------

emeres · 2014-08-23 20:26:56

Then the configuration of gnome-disks needs to be changed or was my post not clear enough?

jasonwryan · 2014-08-23 20:32:34

Not a Sysadmin issue, moving to NC...

ewaller · 2014-08-24 00:36:59

Ask yourself, what does that program do? Personally, I have no idea -- but I can guess that it messes with the /etc/fstab file.

See if that file has changed since you created it. You might post it here. Also, you might post the output of mount

miroamr78 · 2014-08-24 00:40:24

mount outputs nothing. Also, how do I add mount options from gnome-disks ?

ewaller · 2014-08-24 01:04:47

miroamr78 wrote:

mount outputs nothing.

Really? I find that practically impossible to believe. You still did not provide the contents of /etc/fstab.

ewaller · 2014-08-24 01:14:34

ewaller wrote:

miroamr78 wrote:
mount outputs nothing.
Really? I find that practically impossible to believe.

Perhaps I was not as specific as I might be. I am not referring to the output of the mount command when you are trying to hand mount a partition, I mean go to a terminal and just enter mount

ewaller$@$odin ~ 1001 %mount 
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
dev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=1973596k,nr_inodes=493399,mode=755)
run on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
/dev/sda8 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=22,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda2 on /mnt/disk type jfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda9 on /mnt/smalldisk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sda5 on /boot type ext2 (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda7 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=395340k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=100)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)
ewaller$@$odin ~ 1002 %

miroamr78 · 2014-08-24 16:12:01

mount outputs:

proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
dev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=1020012k,nr_inodes=255003,mode=755)
run on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
/dev/sda3 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=22,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=204548k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=100)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)
/dev/sda2 on /run/media/miroamr78/Laboratory type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096,uhelper=udisks2)
/dev/sda1 on /run/media/miroamr78/Courses type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096,uhelper=udisks2)

Note that: /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 are the ones I want to mount, and they were mounted when this command was run

Last edited by miroamr78 (2014-08-24 16:13:02)

miroamr78 · 2014-08-24 16:14:37

cat /etc/fstab

outputs:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>	<dir>	<type>	<options>	<dump>	<pass>
# /dev/sda3
UUID=2268132b-7cfa-4c55-b773-467c4f691e83	/         	ext4      	rw,relatime,data=ordered	0 1

ewaller · 2014-08-24 16:57:57

Well, they are certainly not in your /etc/fstab.

I have no idea how the gnome-disks program works, nor do I care to figure it out. I am looking at your machine state and I see that /dev/sda[1-2] are mounted as type fuseblk; I did not expect that. I thought you had been trying to mount ntfs, but in re-reading the thread, I don't know where I got that impression -- perhaps one of the edits changed the context Regardless, what are the file systems on those partitions?

As to how gnome-disks does its magic -- are you booting to a console, or are you going straight into Gnome through a login manager like gdm? I am starting to think the mounting behavior is a function of the Gnome environment. Is there a particular reason for using gnome-disks for this task, or are you open to a more general approach that is desktop environment agnostic? IMHO, this mount task should be implemented by proper configuration of the fstab file

miroamr78 · 2014-08-24 18:50:29

Here's gnome-disks if you're interested ..
I searched the man page of mount to find if these configuration options exist there: nosuid,ro or if they have anything to do with that ..
Turns out these options are added to /etc/fstab when mounting simply to configure the filesystem's behavior, so I studied the mount man page to finally realize that I needed to add the "user" option to allow non-root users to access the disks from within the file explorer. Thanks, anyways

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emeres · 2014-08-24 22:06:26

I would follow ewallers suggestion and do it directly through filesystem table, should you switch DEs you might end up doing it anyway. Fstab is then parsed by systemd-fstab-generator and translated into mount services.

Should you consider this issue solved, then please mark the thread as such.

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AutoMounting Disks at Startup

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