Ubuntu :: Automounting Read Only
May 6, 2011
Question for you all. I am trying to get my system so that when I insert USB drives they don't auto mount, and when I click on them in the filemanger they only mount read only. I am halfway there, as when I have used "gconftool-2 --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount --type bool false" to prevent the automounting. So thats working great.However it looks like for the mounting of drives in read only mode it used to be (around 2008 or so) that this command would work "gconftool-2 --type list --list-type=string --set /system/storage/default_options/vfat/mount_options "[ro]"" However, it appears that at some point that was removed and no longer works.
Any idea on how I can get this to work? I just want to be able to click on the non-mounted USB device and when nautilus mounts it have it get mounted "ro" not "rw". Ideas?
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Jan 9, 2010
I can manually mount my iPod shuffle and USB key however they wont auto mount. I cant remember when this stopped but i will admit i did move my install to a new disk. Perhaps there is a permission problem somewhere? the media folder my be incorrect? drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2010-01-09 16:34 media
The devices are listed correctly in lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 05ac:1301 Apple, Inc. iPod Shuffle 2.Gen
and dmesg | tail
[ 2233.640852] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 2233.640858] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 64 00 00 08
[ 2233.640863] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
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Mar 19, 2010
When I insert a dvd into the drive, it's not automounting but cd's and usb stick drives automount just fine. I'm using 11.2. Any suggestions? Should I dig up the old mount command and do it manually?
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May 29, 2010
I am having a dual boot setup with Lucid Lynx and Windows 7. I want to automatically mount the NTFS partitions whenever I login to Lucid. I am looking for a graphical tool to set this up. Kindly suggest one.
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Aug 22, 2010
I am running a RAID 6 array via mdadm and I cannot make it autostart and automount at boot which is fairly imperative for a server config.I am running the latest build of regular Ubuntu and not server, mostly because I have some other tasks for it that kind of requires a GUI, amongst that virtualization that I have so far working correctly.Can anyone provide me with proper instructions on how to get the array running properly?I found a few guides, added some things to the mdadm.conf which was supposed to be the end of it, however the array still doesn't start and let alone automount.
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Dec 29, 2010
Just set up a home server with Ubuntu 10.10 desktop. I've set up a software RAID 1 device using System/Administration/Disk Utility which seems to work well. However when I reboot the machine and try and access the drive I get the error that 'authentication is required to start this raid device' and then I have to enter my password, after which all is good
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Mar 5, 2011
I'm running 10.10 and Windows 7 dual boot. I already have lots of music and videos on the Windows partition and I would like to share it with ubuntu partition. I can if I mount it every time manually, but i want the partition to mount automatically so that when I use Amarok for example i don't have to rescan the music files on every startup.
What should i put in fstab?
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In fstab, should i add the line:
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Jul 16, 2011
I have a home server running from a Kubuntu install. I am using a partitioned external hard drive to store media. I have been suffering from power outages and I have discovered my external drive will not automount. How do I get my drive to mount at boot?
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Jan 20, 2011
I'm running opensuse 11.2 with gnome. When I plug in a USB disk. It automatically mounts those partitions that it recognizes. I'd rather it didn't. It creates icons on the desktop although I've managed to stop it opening a file manager window for each partition.But how do I stop the mounting altogether? I've looked in the menus, yast, gnome control centre and sysconfig editor but haven't found anything. And google hasn't given me any clues.
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Nov 15, 2010
I saw an earlier thread on this but I'm still stymied.Running 11.3 x86-64. If I insert a cd/dvd into the drive, the drive is not mounted.I can mount the drive manually and the drive then works - just no automount. Tried with CD, DVD, both data and music formats - no go.A sandbox installation on the box works as expected so it's not hardware.I tried deleting the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules file, rebooted -no change. USB devices automount just fine and a Virtualbox WinXP session with pass-through to the device works just fine.
I can't find any differences between the setup on the 2 installations so it's time to holler for HELP!! I'm about out of hair to tear out.
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Jan 22, 2010
I want to mount usb pendrive when plugged usb.My kernel doesn't support hotplug.I know making entry in fstab will mount at boot time ,but not when plug in.Is there any other way to do it except udev?
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Feb 28, 2010
yesterday my 9.10 stopped automounting my external USB drive, and in general any pendrive I put into any USB slot. What's worse, it also does not recognise CDs put into my DVD drive. (The only update I recall doing was the official update to the "sudo" package.)
1. The USB issue.I plug in my external hard drive. Seemingly, nothing happens. No new icons appear anywhere.
b) I tried gconf-editor and in apps -> nautilus -> preferences "media_automount" is set to YES.
c) After searching around these forums, I even put "usb_storage" into /etc/modules
2. The DVD drive issue.I put an audio CD in the drive. Usually an 'Audio CD' icon appeared after a few seconds, but now nothing happens. There is a "cdrom0" icon visible in the explorer, but when I click it, I get the following error: Code:Unable to mount cdrom0
So, it seems that for some strange reason my Karmic stopped being able to automount any new media. Does anyone have an idea why it is so and what should I do to bring this much-needed functionality back?
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Apr 17, 2010
What's the current best practice for automounting a remote drive for automated backup? I want to use Back in Time and maintain snapshots but it can't do that remotely so I have to mount a folder outside of Back in Time. I have used sshfs from this howto in the past and it works mostly but seems to lose connection and not reconnect a lot. [URL]. Is there a more "modern" way? NFS is horribly unreliable and dog slow for me so it's OUT unless it's changed in the last year.
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May 29, 2010
I'm using rsync and crontab to do automatic backups from my /home partition on /dev/sda to my backup drive /dev/sdb3. The backup partition is ext4.
But the backup partition (sdb3) is obviously on a secondary drive, and I want to automount it when I log in. I read that you have to edit /etc/fstab to do this, but I'm not familiar with the process and can't find clear enough instructions, so I was wondering if someone could give me the command I need and maybe explain how it works?
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Apr 17, 2011
I am running Ubuntu 11.04.
I am having trouble automounting the ntfs partition. When I try to access the mounted partition, I get an error saying that I don't have permission to view the files. Also, I am not able to change the permissions as root.
The relevant line on the /etc/fstab file reads:
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/dev/sda3 /media/sda3 ntfs defaults 0 0
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Jun 18, 2011
I need help to figure out mounting. I have 3 computers running Natty. 1 a desktop 64bit dual boot with Win7 (64) Home Prem; a dell inspiron mini (32bit) dual boot with Win7 Home Prem, and an old 486 Intel based PC running ONLY Ubuntu. My Samba shares are on an external HD currently residing on the 64 bit. I installed Mount Manager...still trying to figure out how it works exactly. I'd like to auto-mount the shares "routinely accessed" (shared network drive, network personal for each machine) allowing as needed access. Then the other personal network drives I would like to mount only when needed. Leaving local home drives password/share protected ... using the network personal folders as a place to add files or such that need to go to a local drive.
{basically I have 3 computers which each have a local home folder, and a network home folder; then I have a network shared share where open shares will be stored (email, calendar, most documents, theetc) each computer has a primary ubuntu user (user id 1000). I have 3 windows ids on 2 computers. each of these ids has been paired with an ubuntu user in smbusers; after this weekend I will only have 1 windows share and 1 user hopefully! so the other two ubuntu users will have non-existent windows IDs}Right now I can (from a non-server machine) access the shared network drive, but cannot access any others. (Makes sense...that share is totally open). On the remote drive I have samba the the installed but no samba directory and it hasn't been configured (obviously).On the standalone (where the HD is attached) I can access any of them by mounting them where they are listed under Places, but through the network menu I can access the shared drive, and the personal drive with just one password entry (my login or sudo password). The others whenever I enter my login/sudo password I get an unable to mount error.
I currently have 3 Ubuntu users & 3 windows users. I've assigned each Ubuntu user an window user name hoping that would make the authorizations easier. I'm currently using a generic Samba password and a generic Ubuntu login password but they are different. So one password for each, each user has the same passwords. I do allow guests using the guest group (not nobody, but I could change that easily enough)If I weren't so stubborn I'd just ditch the passwords, make all shares open to everybody, but eventually I hope to be able to do remote access (via mobile) and would rather just do it all from the beginning than mess with it later.I've been hesitant to mess with programming in the mount/unmount process because I'm not sure I understand it that well (which is why I installed Mount Manager). Problem is I don't understand it well enough to figure out how to use Mount Manager. I did see where automount will not work if you have to authenticate the share before mounting. One of the reasons I only want to automount the 2 shares for each machine. That particular process sounded like what i want for those 2 connections on each. But first I need to figure out mounting period I guess.I may be really confused, or trying to do something that I with my limited knowledge and needs really don't want or need to do....wouldn't be surprising! I'm known to make things more complicated than needed. If a simpler approach seems more logical feel free to share!
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Jul 20, 2009
How do I stop automounting USB devices in Fedora 11?I have put the following in a file under /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/01-stop.fdi. I have even put a copy in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/. Nothing works.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
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Feb 10, 2010
I have researched this for a couple of days and I am not getting anywhere. My Fedora 12 install is working just fine with the standard gnome desktop. I can plug in any usb drive and it is recognized and mounted with a link on the desktop. But I want to use Fluxbox. I installed and am running FB just fine except that I can't get usb devices to be recognized and mounted.I don't need a link on the desktop but an entry in /media would be nice.
I am thoroughly confused about which method I should be using to do this simple task. I created a HAL policy for my trackpad to work. Do I need to do something similar for the usb? I have read about udev rules but they seem to be concerned with NOT mounting usb devices. I also read about autofs and thunar but it seems like there should be a much simpler approach and I have certainly missed it.
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Jul 18, 2010
When I insert a CD, the system no longer offers to automount it and CDs no longer show up in the list of disks on the left side of Dolphin windows. USB keys still work properly and I can still manually mount CDs through the command line? Was there some tweak to the HAL rules that disabled CD/DVD automounting and is there any way to fix this?
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Jun 1, 2009
I have F9 on a laptop that dual boots with WinXP.When i log in and the desktop shows that the NTFS partition is mounted with a shortcut on the desktop. Is there a way to make it not automount? Trivial inconvenience, but i thought i'd ask anyway.
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Apr 25, 2010
Even with ivmount killed, my external devices are auto-mounted (under the names of disk, disk-1, disk-2 etc in /media). This would be fine, however I always have to re-mount the drives as by default they are autmounted as read-only no matter their filesystem. Could I have another daemon automounting my drives, and if so, how do I identify it?
I do not have the gnome-desktop environment installed, but instead run Fluxbox with Rox pinboard and filer. I hated having to manually mount drives from the command line, so I installed a certain package (which I forgotten the name of) which is probably culprit. Now I know how to setup pmount, ivman and rox-pinboard to work together.
Debian Squeeze AMD64
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Nov 4, 2010
When I log into gnome all my other partitions are automatically mounted under /media, but when I log into kde, they are not. I would rather that they not be automatically mounted. How do I change this?
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Jul 7, 2011
I have an lvm volume group VG_GUESTS and inside it alogical volume LV_NTFSDATA that was connected to andformatted to NTFS by a guest virtual machine (KVM). I can mount the 1st NTFS partition on that lv manually like this:
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sudo kpartx -a /dev/VG_GUESTS/LV_NTFSDATA
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/mapper/VG_GUESTS-LV_NTFSDATA1 /mnt/NTFSDATA1
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Feb 18, 2010
I'm running a Debian squeeze system on AMD64, and with recent aptitude safe-upgrade the automounting of gnome/nautilus broke. Now if you click on a usbdrive it give this error: "Unable to mount 'volumelabel' Not Authorized".Previous it automatically mounted it, making/removing mount points as needed in /media, or you could mount by clicking on the drive icon in nautilus. (It varied a bit with package updates, but i didn't worry too much)Anyone got any ideas what could be wrong? I'm lost where to start, and systems nautilus or gnome-volume-manager use to mount things.
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Jun 12, 2009
I presume automount of drives (dvd etc.) is still something fedora does , so is anyone else not seeing this occur,,fedora 11 RC > fedora release ( yes I have fedora-release here) and it a music CD inserted isn't automounting or asking me to play it...It's working with kde cd player..but rhythmbox and amarok both aren't sweeing music cd and I can't figure out how to make them see it
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I upgraded to F15 and now my Plextor DVD PX-712A drive will not mount.My CD-ROM will mount fine.My optical drives kept auto closing right after opening, but I did find a solution in this fourm to that problem which was editing the sysctl.conf file.But like I mentioned I cannot get any DVD rom to mount properly. I have used disk manager and I can see the DVD drive listed.I have told disk manager to mount the DVD but I still cannot find it in Dolphin.Also, a strange problem is that in Disk Manager trying to speed test any of my optical drives fails, it says that the transfer rate is too slow to measure.
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May 4, 2011
I have squeeze with gnome (gdm3) desktop.How to disable any kind of device automounting in gnome?
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Apr 11, 2010
Before I leave with a bad taste in my mouth forever from the linux communities here, I'd like to ask one more question. I've been snooping around a bit about this issue of how to automount USB Drives, have them show on the desktop in file managers like PCManFM and not have to touch fstab at all.
How do I do this? Without touching Fstab, GNOME, any other DE. I only want openbox around.Another question I also hope to answer: How do I make shortcuts in PCManFM?
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