24.4 auto mount

Support and Help
, ,
1

Hello,

I love the auto mount feature in 24.04 for both of my external HD I use for Plex, but they are really long and I prefer to go back to /extmedia4 & /extmedia10. I made two entries for them in the fstab file using their UUID, mount name and file type, but they were both ignored and auto mounted with the longer mount names.

When I go into disk utility, auto mount isn’t even checked and this is a fresh install of 24.04. I previously used them with 20.04 and had a botched upgrade so I had to do a clean install.

Where is 24.04 getting these long mount paths from if it’s a clean install? Is there a file that it’s reading from both drives? It’s looks familiar like I set it up 2 years ago when I first started with 20.04, but I changed my mind and used the shorter names in fstab in 20.04.

I guess I could simply stop them, do a manual mount in terminal and then try to check auto mount in disk utility reboot and see if it sticks, but I’m trying to find out why 24.04 is behaving this way and ignoring fstab.

Thanks!

2

If you use Gparted to add a Label to each external disk partition, then the Label will appear in the left pane of Files (nautilus) when the disks are attached.
Is this what you want to happen?

3

Would adding a label make referencing the volumes in the terminal shorter? Like if the auto assigned one was users/media/extbackup-4, could I just use the label and enter extmedia4?

4

Yes, indeed

Here is an example of an external disk with three partitions:-

redact@gmktec:~$ ls /media/redact/
Backup-1  Software  Videos
redact@gmktec:~$ cd /media/redact/Backup-1/
redact@gmktec:/media/redact/Backup-1$
5

Thanks , I actually found out where it was. Disk Utility , Edit Mount Options, unselect user session defaults and edit the mount point to whatever you want. I rebooted and its working. Now onto installing Plex and permissions!!! :wink:

1000010191
10000101911920×1446 248 KB

All of this work to get Ubuntu to recognize my Intel 630 so I can do hardware encoding.