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Томица Кораћ
Asked: 2016-12-02 07:22:18 +0800 CST

Why aren't my mounted internal partitions showing in the Sidebar

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I have several partitions on my internal HDD. When I open a Nautilus window (any folder), the mounted partitions are not showing in the window's sidebar. This happened after I installed Ubuntu 16.10. Before that I was using Elementary OS without Nautilus.

The same problem exists on my guest account.

If I enter in Terminal sudo nautilus then all the partitions do show up in the sidebar, although some show their UUID instead of Label.

While trying to resolve this, I've modified my /etc/fstab several times (both manually and through Disks app), but without success. Every time the result is be the same - no partitions in the Sidebar.

An additional question, not sure if it's related, if I open Disks app, edit any partition's Mount Options and set Automatic Mount Options to On, that partition does not automatically mount. This is not the case on my other computers. Could it be in any way related to my problem above?

As I said, I've modified my /etc/fstab a few times already, but here's how it currently looks like:

# /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/sda9 during installation
UUID=28f8f040-66ac-4edd-9b3e-670425ce8b31 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /home was on /dev/sda10 during installation
UUID=25c545a9-51e2-46d3-9cc2-fc3d72fc8035 /home           ext4    defaults        0       2
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=4172ee4d-d887-464c-862d-04b2acc4b287 none            swap    sw              0       0

# AMPP
# /dev/disk/by-uuid/54905800-7fed-4426-9fdc-c9a5748cac58 /mnt/54905800-7fed-4426-9fdc-c9a5748cac58 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

# DATA
# /dev/disk/by-uuid/EAA9-7535 /mnt/EAA9-7535 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
# UUID=EAA9-7535    /media/tomica/DATA  vfat    defaults,nosuid,nodev,locale=en_US.utf8 0   0

# ntfs-data
# /dev/disk/by-uuid/40C9576D12CF1939 /mnt/40C9576D12CF1939 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

# win7
# /dev/disk/by-uuid/E06491F96491D320 /mnt/E06491F96491D320 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
UUID=E06491F96491D320   /media/tomica/win7  ntfs-3g defaults,nosuid,nodev,locale=en_US.utf8 0   0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/54905800-7fed-4426-9fdc-c9a5748cac58 /mnt/54905800-7fed-4426-9fdc-c9a5748cac58 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/EAA9-7535 /mnt/EAA9-7535 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/40C9576D12CF1939 /mnt/40C9576D12CF1939 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

Edit: So muru suggested that my question is a duplicate of this one. I've tried both answers from that question and neither worked unfortunately.

I've also tried Byte Commander's suggestion from his comment, i.e. commented out all partitions from /etc/fstab and restarted my computer (twice) and that didn't work either. Any new suggestions are much appreciated.

Edit 2: As advised by user.dz, I'm adding here outputs of the following commands:

mount

1 Answers

  1. How did you configure your folder permissions? If you can show them when you are root, maybe those folders don't allow users to see them because of permissions. Try this (as root) (you can change "tomica" to your desired user):

    # chown -R tomica:tomica /media
# chmod -R 775

    NOTE: Only devices mounted in /media will show up in your file explorer as normal user.

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