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Worn-out_home-tech
Asked: 2024-11-05 11:11:49 +0800 CST

Portable SSD not automounting in 24.10

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After upgrading from 24.04 to 24.10, my portable Samsung T7 (Ext4) no longer automounts when I plug it in to the usb port.

When I plug it in, the name of the drive will appear in files/nautilus, but the eject symbol will not appear and programs cannot access it. When I click on the name of drive it will then mount.

However,if I plug in a thumbdrive (Fat32), it automounts perfectly.

How should I try and fix this?

Edit: I also tried 'Disks' and overrode the normal session setting plus turned on 'automount at start up' for the drive but that didn't work.

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2 Answers

  1. Your flash is recognized as "media" and so automounts under /media//. The SSD is recognized as a disk, so does whatever the /etc/fstab entry has for it -- a mount point, and options, which may include auto or noauto. Edit the fstab file, add a line for your ssd to mount it wherever you want (/mnt/xxx is usual place). and ensure the options don't prevent automounting (defaults,auto will certainly allow automounting, maybe "auto" is optional).

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  2. Best Answer

    First off, verify that the drive is actually unmounted:

    mount | grep -F "/media/$(id -un)"

    As on 24.04 (Nautilus 46.2) I'm experiencing a bug where regardless of the mount state of the drive, Nautilus will always show external drives as mounted. Which is the opposite of what you're experiencing, but, well, I don't expect a bug to behave consistently.

    But if the drive really is unmounted, then it could be a case of org.gnome.desktop.media-handling.automount set to false; make sure org.gnome.desktop.media-handling.automount is set to true:

    % gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automount 
true

    And if it's not, set it to true:

    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automount true

    And unplug / re-plug the drive, again verifying the drive's mount state using mount | grep -F "/media/$(id -un)" to avoid being mislead by the possible bug.

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