Mounting all partitions on hard disk automatically on Linux Mint

Question

Issue
I have a Linux Mint installation. Every time that I boot, I need to manually mount the two partitions on my computer(New volume D and Drive C). If I don't do this, these drives don't show up anywhere. I want to know if there is some way to automate this process.

Goal
Automatically mounting all the partitions on the hard disk each time I boot.

Specs
Linux Mint 14 dual boot with Windows XP SP3

Answer 1

You can do this by the simplest way. Go to:

• Menu -> Disks (app)
• Select the volume you want to mount, and click on its options
• Select "Edit Mount Options" -> And make sure you select "Mount at Startup" in the drive.

Answer 2

You can do this through the file /etc/fstab. Take a look at this link. This tutorial also has good details.

Example steps

First you need to find out the UUID of the hard drives. You can use the command blkid for this. For example:

% sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: TYPE="ntfs" UUID="A0F0582EF0580CC2"
/dev/sda2: UUID="8c2da865-13f4-47a2-9c92-2f31738469e8" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda3: TYPE="swap" UUID="5641913f-9bcc-4d8a-8bcb-ddfc3159e70f"
/dev/sda5: UUID="FAB008D6B0089AF1" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="32c61b65-f2f8-4041-a5d5-3d5ef4182723" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb2: UUID="41c22818-fbad-4da6-8196-c816df0b7aa8" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" 

The output from the blkid command above can be used to identify the hard drive when adding entries to /etc/fstab.

Next you need to edit the /etc/fstab file. The lines in this file are organized as follows:

UUID={YOUR-UID}    {/path/to/mount/point}               {file-system-type}    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1

Now edit the file:

% sudo vi /etc/fstab

And add a file like this, for example:

UUID=41c22818-fbad-4da6-8196-c816df0b7aa8  /disk2p2      ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1

Save the file and then reprocess the file with the mount -a command.

Windows partitions

To mount an ntfs partition you'll need to do something like this in your /etc/fstab file:

/dev/sda2   /mnt/excess ntfs-3g    permissions,locale=en_US.utf8    0   2

Answer 3

If you have a lot of partitions to be mounted, maybe you need a script like I did.

# ! python
# mount all partition by neoedmund
from subprocess import Popen
from subprocess import PIPE

def getCol(col, line):
    p1 = line.find(col)
    if p1<0 : return ""
    p2 = p1 + len(col) + 1
    p3 = line.find('"',p2+1)
    return line[p2+1:p3]

data_stream = Popen(["/bin/lsblk", "-P", "-o", "FSTYPE,UUID,MOUNTPOINT,KNAME"], stdout=PIPE)
data=[]
for line in data_stream.stdout:
    fstype = getCol("FSTYPE", line)
    if fstype=="": continue # no fs
    mountpoint = getCol("MOUNTPOINT", line)
    if mountpoint!="":continue  # already mounted   
    uuid = getCol("UUID", line)
    kname = getCol("KNAME", line)
    data.append((kname, uuid))

print("### mount script ###")
for (kname,uuid) in data:
    print("mkdir /media/%s-%s"%(kname, uuid))
    print("mount /dev/%s /media/%s-%s" %(kname, kname, uuid))

print("### umount script ###")
for (kname,uuid) in data:
    print("umount /dev/%s" %(kname))

It is a python script, depends on "/bin/lsblk" , save the output to two shell scripts for mount and umount.

Answer 4

for i in $(lsblk -r |awk '{ print $1 }'|grep -v md |grep -v loop |grep .*[[:digit:]]|sort|uniq;); 
do
    if [ -z  "$(grep  $i /proc/mounts)" ]
    then  
        mkdir /mnt/$i;
        mount /dev/$i /mnt/$i
    fi
done

Answer 5

Backup of current fstab:

#cp -a /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bk

process the output of lsblk -f using sed and awk and redirect output to fstab:

#lsblk -f|sed 's/\[SWAP]/swap /g'|awk '/(-)/{printf"UUID=%-36s %-23s %-7s defaults 
           0 0\n", $3, ($4==""?mnt"NR:$4), $2}'>/etc/fstab

mount the new mount points by invoking

#mount -a