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Idea #25731: Visual tool for mounting drives

Written by crephoto the 30 Aug 10 at 02:27. Category: System. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
Currently, the only way to mount drives to a specific location in the file system is a confusing process involving the terminal.

I think many users would appreciate a user-friendly GUI tool to do this.

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Solution #1: Simple GUI Tool
Written by crephoto the 30 Aug 10 at 02:27.
A simple, user-friendly tool that allows the user to pick a drive that is already mounted, then tell it where to mount inside the file system. Then the drive remounts in its new location and the settings to mount there are saved.
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Solution #2: Nautilus Tool
Written by crephoto the 30 Aug 10 at 02:28.
A tool inside of Nautilus. Users right-click on the drive in question, and the process is the same as #1.
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Solution #3: Add package support for fwstab
Written by tntricker the 31 Aug 10 at 17:53.
There's already a pretty good tool for automating fstab, unfortunately it's only packaged for RPM distributions.

screenshot
http://www.diffingo.com/oss/sites/default/files/screenshots/fwfstab/fwfstab.png

homepage
http://www.diffingo.com/oss/fwfstab
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Solution #4: Do it with palimpset
Written by Malokon the 1 Sep 10 at 22:57.
Make palimpset able to specify the mount point when mounting a device
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Solution #5: Do it with MountManager
Written by dino99 the 18 Sep 10 at 14:05.
Make MountManager able to specify the mount point when mounting a device
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Solution #6: and limit mountpoints to ~/* , /media/* ( and /tmp/* ? )
Written by Int_ua the 18 Sep 10 at 19:29.
or, in other words, only to places where user have write access.
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Solution #7: and add short explanation of mount points concept
Written by Int_ua the 18 Sep 10 at 19:38.
for new users

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tntricker wrote on the 31 Aug 10 at 01:32
what's wrong with it mounting to /media by default?

crephoto wrote on the 31 Aug 10 at 04:09
in some cases, it is convenient to have certain folders already inegrated in the system, such as Documents or Pictures, etc. on a seperate drive, while still keeping their original path

for example, because videos are very large, have the videos folder on a seperate, large drive to save space on the main drive.

alexduf2 wrote on the 31 Aug 10 at 08:12
@crephoto : I think someone having this need, should be able to edit /etc/fstab.
You can choose what to do at the install, and I believe you can do it with gparted.
Editing the mount-point is not a common operation, does-it really need to be integrated ?

Ssdg wrote on the 31 Aug 10 at 08:45
Actually, I create symbolic links... and it work well, even with a ssh share mounted via nautilus.

tntricker wrote on the 31 Aug 10 at 17:50
There used to be a very good tool(gui based too) for doing just this. Anyone remember FwFstab? why isn't it packaged anymore?

anyway heres a good pic of it.
http://www.diffingo.com/oss/sites/default/files/screenshots/fwfstab/fwfstab.png

and homepage
http://www.diffingo.com/oss/fwfstab/features

Darwin Survivor (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 31 Aug 10 at 22:04
Just so we're clear, are we talking about more-or-less permanent drives (done through fstab) or removable (usb, etc)?

TwistedLincoln wrote on the 2 Sep 10 at 22:32
I haven't ever been able to get fwfstab to compile in Ubuntu. It wants libraries that only seem to be available in Fedora, and my efforts to find and compile them have been more difficult than I had hoped...

I too would love to see fwfstab in Ubuntu, if only in the repositories.


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