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Josh
Asked: 2015-12-18 17:32:49 +0800 CST

Secondary hard disk does not auto-mount

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I have a secondary hard disk (8 TB, ext4) that does not auto-mount on OS startup despite "auto-mount" being set to "on" within the "Mount Options" of the "Disks" utility application.

How do I enable the auto-mount option to have this effect?

I am running 14.04. The disk is housed within a trayless removable rack and is present prior to powering the system. There is no problem using the disk once I have mounted it manually.

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Output of sudo blkid;cat /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda1: UUID="7c101c3e-7f80-4744-aa34-7a111a5c16a4" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda5: UUID="022e4360-27be-4f6e-909a-e10a91ee8046" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="data" UUID="4270461f-dacc-4ea1-846b-b79b19870ae2" TYPE="ext4" 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=7c101c3e-7f80-4744-aa34-7a111a5c16a4 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=022e4360-27be-4f6e-909a-e10a91ee8046 none            swap    sw              0       0
14.04

1 Answers

  1. The contents of your /etc/fstab file suggest that only two block devices get mounted - your Ubuntu partition, /dev/sda1 and your memory swap partition, /dev/sda5 , both of which are on the same disk /dev/sda

    What you need to do to automount the secondary hard disk is to edit the /etc/fstab in accordance with output of blkid (the first 3 lines).

    Run pkexec gedit /etc/fstab in terminal, to edit that file with super-user privilege. Add the following line:

    UUID=4270461f-dacc-4ea1-846b-b79b19870ae2 /media/SECONDARY ext4 noatime,nodiratime,user=1000,rw 0 0

    Save and exit the gedit text editor

    Note, you should create /media/SECONDARY folder before reboot with sudo mkdir /media/SECONDARY. SECONDARY doesn't have to be the name, you can change it to whatever you want, but keep in mind to change it in /etc/fstab as well.

    Note also the option user=1000 . Assuming you are the only user on your system, 1000 is default for first user ever created, hence that option. Verify your user id with id -u command. Change accrodingly

    As for your original issue, I am not familiar with Ubuntu's disks utility, so I don't know possible reason for it not working. I would assume it performs the same task as editing /etc/fstab manually.

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