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Option to automount drives on bootup  
Written by dmritard96 the 22 Aug 09 at 03:40. Global category: Usability. New
Right now I have to deal with annoying settings in fstab to automount my second harddrive. Or I have to install some program to manage it.
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Solution #1: Right Click option
Written by dmritard96 the 22 Aug 09 at 03:40.
I would like to right click on my second harddrive and have an option to mount on boot. I would also like the option to appear in the properties dialogue.
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Solution #2: Tab for Mounting Issues in 'Properties'
Written by Akerbos the 23 Aug 09 at 15:16.
Should be clear; no need to clutter the context menue.
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Solution #3: Hole new Configuration App for Booting and Mounting Issues
Written by Akerbos the 23 Aug 09 at 15:31.
This is a domain where, sadly, only low-level access is possible. It has to be made usable to more users.
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Solution #4: Automount all drives by default
Written by tholme the 30 Aug 09 at 20:46.
Just automount all drives that can be mounted automatically.
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Solution #5: Remember Mount Status
Written by Avantarius the 10 Sep 09 at 15:23.
Save a list of all mounted drives at shutdown. When turned on again the saved mounts are restored automatically so no configuration app or similar is needed. If you don't want a mounted drive to reappear after reboot, just unmount it before computer shutdown!
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Solution #6: make mounting of ressources via wlan more bullet proof
Written by spocky the 11 Sep 09 at 06:07.
at the moment auto mounting of ressources over wlan is a pain...
sometime the ressources (e.g. NAS over WLAN) are recognised and mounted automatically
sometimes a mount -a is necessary

similarity is given to the shutdown "experience" where sometime ubuntu is waiting for the ressource while it might have been shutdown already
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Solution #7: automount & mount on systemstart
Written by hakaishi the 17 Oct 09 at 08:58.
I think to solve this problem there could be made a second option in the gconf-editor. Something like media_mount_on_systemstart.
And then media_automount should be used only for the automount while media_mount_on_systemstart handles whether the options auto/noauto if fstab are ignored or not.
Another way to solve this would be to let media_automount handle the automount only and let fstab handle the rest.
Right now it's description is as following:
"If set to true, then Nautilus will automatically mount media such as user-visible hard disks and removable media on start-up and media insertion."
I think it should be reduced to:
"If set to true, then Nautilus will automatically mount media such as user-visible hard disks and removable media on insertion."

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