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Bug 599644 - can't enable automounting for fixed media
can't enable automounting for fixed media
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-disk-utility
Classification: Core
Component: Disks UI
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-disk-utility-maint
gnome-disk-utility-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-10-26 11:37 UTC by yurik81
Modified: 2012-11-12 21:05 UTC
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Description yurik81 2009-10-26 11:37:09 UTC 
'/apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount' key does automounting for removable media. But there is no way to do the same with fixed media like NTFS of FAT partitions.

If changes in the UI (Preferances) is not welcome, then you can leave this option internal, ie accessible only via gconf-editor. The key can be named '/apps/nautilus/preferences/fixed_media_automount'.
Comment 1 Mehmet Giritli 2010-10-22 16:40:11 UTC 
Any news on this?

There needs to be a way of auto mounting of partitions on fixed drives which are not listed in fstab.

I auto start some apps which need certain partitions mounted at startup. For example, when you do that with rhythmbox and the partition is not automounted, then your music library will be emptied in rb and you will have to wait rb to rescan *all* the files again after you manually mount, to get your library back! Very annoying.
Comment 2 David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) 2012-11-12 21:05:36 UTC 
With udisks 2.x you can set the UDISKS_AUTO variable in udev, see

 http://git.gnome.org/browse/gvfs/tree/monitor/udisks2/what-is-shown.txt
 http://udisks.freedesktop.org/docs/latest/udisks.8.html

for more information.