How to automatically mount drives in Ubuntu

Hello everyone. Today we are going to do a tutorial on how to automatically mount drives in our Ubuntu.

Drives, mount .... Doesn't my Ubuntu already do that?

According to official announcements, Ubuntu mounts any drive automatically, that is, you plug in a usb or sd card and it automatically recognizes it and you can use it and handle it as you please, which vulgarly amounts to the mounting process. But there are times and with unique devices that Ubuntu does not recognize them, well Ubuntu and almost all Gnu / Linux distributions, that is why there are these techniques that are based on personally telling the computer that such connection read it and activate it for your use . We will also try to modify a file so that when you start the computer this device will load you and you will not have any more problems, because there are times when we turn on the computer to pass or view files from a unit such as a USB or a portable hard drive.

And this to mount units, is it difficult?

The answer is no, but as always, read the entire tutorial before doing anything and then make sure you have a backup of your system o make a restore pointAfter all this we go to the terminal and execute:

sudo blkid

This command shows us on the screen a summary of our partition table, which includes all the storage systems that work and those that do not, once the partition to mount is identified, / dev / sdaX, we take the value of UUID and the physical address of the unit, / dev / sda "X" and we write in the console

sudo mkdir / media / disk_sd

This creates a folder inside the / media folder where we will mount the new drive or drives. Now, finally, we are going to add the following line to the / etc / fstab file:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>sudo echo "/dev/sda</b></span></span>

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>7</b></span></span>

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b> /media/</b></span></span>

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>disco_sd</b></span></span>

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b> ntfs-3g auto,rw,users,umask=000 0 0" &gt;&gt; /etc/fstab</b></span></span>

In my case, I have chosen the / dev / sda7 partition, the / media / disk_sd mount directory, the ntfs-3g partition type, the options of the mount command that we have chosen and what they mean are:
- auto -> automatic assembly
- rw -> read / write mode
- users -> Allows it to be mounted by users other than root
- umask -> mask required when modifying files

Attention!

Do not forget to put the last two zeros since they are so that it does not back up data and to avoid reviewing the disk, respectively. It is a simple tutorial and still necessary today, since there are elements such as the Kindle ebook reader that has difficulties in reading and mounting units seems to be the only solution. By the way, I forgot to tell you that it is necessary to have the device we want to mount connected, otherwise it does not appear in the blkid indications.

More information - Automated copies in Ubuntu 13.04,  SystemBack, another useful backup tool,

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