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wjandrea
Asked: 2014-10-29 19:36:43 +0800 CST

Secondary HDD mounting in /media/username under wrong folder name

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I have my Ubuntu installed on an SSD, and a secondary HDD called Earth that I've set to automatically mount at startup. The thing is, when it mounts, the folder is labelled "Earth1" instead of "Earth". There is still a folder in /media/username called "Earth" but when I attempt to open it, it gives the error:

This location could not be displayed. You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of 'Earth'.

So right now a whole bunch of programs are trying to access files in /media/username/Earth but returning errors.

This has been happening since I had a problem with Unity and had to reset some of my user settings. I'm currently logged in as admin, and I've checked the startup command and everything's fine there.

Update 2017-10-31 (for future reference)

I was using Startup Applications to mount Earth (BTW, Startup Applications runs at login, not at boot). Based on subin's answer, I switched to using the Disks utility, which saves its config to the /etc/fstab file (which tells the system to mount partitions at boot), and that worked fine. The fstab entry specified the mount point.

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    Correcting the line in /etc/fstab should help. If you have used the disk utility to setup the auto mount options, you should see a line which contains the mount point (here /media/username/Earth) Check if the line exists. If not, use the disk utility to set it up again. Looks like the directory /media/username/Earth exists and it is not specified as the mount point, so when the auto mounter sees the directory Earth already existing, it creates another directory Earth1 and mounts the partition there.

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  2. You may need to set user permissions by chowning the earth volume to your user name. This sounds complicated but is insanely easy & teaches you some CLI skills. (Not to be confused with chmod.)

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  3. You can try changing it in /etc/fstab or making a folder in on the drive as root and then chowning it to your user. EDIT: I tried this a while ago and it worked perfectly after using fstab to mount it to the right place and chowning a folder to fix the user problems.

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