Ubuntu - How to automount an external drive at a preconfigured mount point?
Normally, when I attach an external USB drive to my Ubuntu system, the filesystem on it are automounted to /media/label. However, I'd like the filesystem to be mounted at a mount point of my choosing. I've added a line like this to my /etc/fstab:
UUID=2BE905C238C1F724 /p ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 # Passport 320GB
This allows me to manually mount the volume at /p by running sudo mount /p, however the filesystem is no longer automounted when the drive is attached to the PC. What do I need to do to get automount to this mount point to work, if at all possible?
GeorgeM is close, but not close enough.
On Ubuntu, gnome-mount is reponsible for mounting media and also for maintaining the needed configuration. The man page of gnome-mount should tell you much more and with a little trial and error you should be able to achieve what you want.
After I played with this for a little while, I found the following:
- It seems you can not specifiy a mount point outside of
/media - You can set the mount points name by hal udi
The following command will change the settings used to mount a USB drive on my system:
gnome-mount --write-settings \
--hal-udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_00AD_15D0
--mount-point p
When inserted, the USB drive will be mounted in /media/p
The mount point is determined by HAL and its complicated and arcane rules. No need to hack your fstab file.