Public bug reported:
I am having problems mounting my external hard drive correctly, there
are several issues:
1. If I don't have an entry in fstab the external mounts with no problem
(in terms of permissions) but it creates a new folder in /media every
time. The order is /media/disk then I reboot and the next time it mounts
to /media/disk-1 then /media/disk-2 etc...The old folders are left in
/media so after 10 restarts I effectively have 18 empty folders (two
partitions on external, one booting to /media/BACKUP then it goes to
/media/BACKUP_ then /media/BACKUP__ etc...then the disk partition).
Also, the empty folders have big red X's on them which I assume means
something with permissions.
2. I have tried several fstab entries:
a. /dev/sdb6 /media/disk vfat utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
When I go to places and click the 243 gig partition I get a "permission
denied" which from my understanding comes from the umask=007
b. /dev/sdb6 /media/disk vfat defaults,umask=0 0 0
Same thing, in places there is my 250 GB media but when I click on it it comes
up with an error saying "Cannout mount volume. You are not privileged to mount
this volume."
c./dev/sdb6 /media/disk vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0
This is by far the weirdest one of them all. I have that twice but the
second entry is /dev/sdb5 /media/BACKUP vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0
The BACKUP (second entry) is fine, on boot it mounts and I have
privileges to read and write to the partition.
The disk partition does not mount on boot. When I go to places and click
the 243 GB Media it fails to mount and complains about privileges. The
two entries are identical other than dev and mount point. I can mount in
terminal with sudo mount command but before Hardy install I had no
problem having the drive mount on boot with full privileges.
Thanks for the hard work!
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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hard drive mounting problem in Hardy
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213537
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