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I've a partition on /dev/sda2 of 279 GB Ext4 filesystem, but I'm not able to auto mount it on login.

I've added the partition entry /dev/sda /home ext4 defaults 0 0 in /etc/fstabt still it does not auto mount.

I've even tried to edit the mount options from disks (please see the below screenshot), yet no results.

The udisks command works well but the problem is that, it asks a admin password for standard user.

So my question is how do I auto mount this partition or at least grant read write permission to standard user so that they can mount this partition using udisks command.

Thanks to dschinn1001 I was able to automount my partition by editing the entry in fstab.

First I fount the UUID using sudo blkid

Then edit the fstab file using sudo /etc/fstab

Add the entry in the following format

[Device] [Mount Point] [File System Type] [Options] [Dump] [Pass]

Device will be your UUID
Mount Point will be the location where you want to mount your partition
File System Type will be displayed when you run blkid command
Options Add the options you need. See options in Fstab for more details.
Dump This value will be zero most cases. See Fstab for more details.
Pass This value will be zero most cases. See Fstab for more details.

So finally this is how my entry looks like.

UUID=fe9ab5ba-35ed-49c5-b1d3-9bfc02060867 /media/mount ext4 auto,user,rw,exec 0 0

Save the file and restart your PC.

In the options I've mentioned

auto which means auto mount
user which means grant standard users to mount partition
rw read write permission
exec Permit the execution of binaries from the filesystem

I rarely use Update manager and when ever I use it, I don't update everything, just a few programs which I use more frequently.

For selecting a update of a program I have to scroll through a huge list of updates.

Is there any option for searching for a specific update(s)?

I've recently downloaded g2ipmsg (IP Messenger for Ubuntu 11.10). However - this comes not as an installable package as previous ubuntu versions.

Thus I think I need to compile it. This application needs gtk so I've installed libgtk2.0-dev using Synaptic Package Manager.

Now when I run ./configure command it gives me the following error.

checking for APPLET... configure: error: Package requirements (libpanelapplet-2.0) were >not met:

No package 'libpanelapplet-2.0' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables APPLET_CFLAGS and
APPLET_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config
man page for more details.

Where can I find the path for PKG_CONFIG_PATH?

This is what I have done so far:

I've installed libxml-parser-perl, libgnomeui-dev, gettext, intltool according to the post Installing IP messenger on Ubuntu linux but could not find the package libpanel-applet2-dev.

Then I even tried to install libpanelappletmm-2.6-dev and libpanelappletmm-2.6-1c2 but could not find this packages

but still get the same error

configure: error: Package requirements (libpanelapplet-2.0) were not met

There are lot of problems with g2ipmsg in ubuntu, specially there are lot of problems during file transfer.

Instead of installing Ip messanger using wine or g2ipmsg use Iptux.

Its perfectly compatible with Ip Messanger.

Installing Iptux sudo apt-get install iptux

I have a Iball Baton ADSD2+ Router.

It's working fine but the problem is when I boot into Ubuntu I have to unplug the usb cable and then plug it again, then it starts working.

Why do I have to re connect my usb cable? Let me know if you need more details.

Edit :

I am using a direct connection. I mean to say I don't have to enter a username or password. I am connected to internet as soon as I start my router. The problem is if I start my router before my computer I have to re connect my usb cable.

Edit 1 :

I tried have tried to start my router after boot, but just before login and my router connects. But I don't know why my router does not connect if I start before boot ?

Edit 2 :

If I use Ethernet cable for connecting my router I don't have to re connect it again, but the problem still exists for the usb cable.

Thanks.

Recently I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 and selected a wrong option while installing it.

Now the problem is that my machine directly boots Ubuntu and even does not show me grub menu.

How do I install grub menu ?

And how do I add Windows Vista to the grub menu?

This is what I have tried.

sudo grub

> root (hd0,0)

> setup (hd0)

Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition

I don't know what's going wrong here and I am sure that I have not wiped out my windows partition.

Edit :

sudo update-grub

Generating grub.cfg ...  
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic  
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic  
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin  
ls: cannot access /media/BC54B2C654B282A6/boot  
Boot: No such file or directory  
done 

sudo os-prober

ls: cannot access /media/BC54B2C654B282A6/boot  
Boot: No such file or directory  

Thanks.

Sometimes I mount my NTFS drives in Ubuntu but forget to unmount them before shutdown.

So does Ubuntu unmount them before shutdown or do I have to unmount them manually before shutdown?

I am asking this because I have forgot to unmount my NTFS partition many times and when I boot into my Windows, windows starts scanning for my disk sometimes.

Thanks.

Normally we use a different file to redirect the output.

For example :

cat < first > temp

In this command the contents of first are redirected to temp instead of the standard output.

Then why does it truncates the file if I use the same file name?

Why can't it overwrite the same file?

cat < first > first 

How do I replace vi by vim so that when I type vi in terminal vim is opened?