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I have two hard-drives (one internal and one external) that I want to mount on start up (ntfs, but it doesn’t matter).

I can mount them fine with the "Disk Utility" aplication and I can mount them fine with the comands



respectively (I followed this tutorial; https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticallyMountPartitions#Per-User_Mounts and used the Per-User Mounts).

But when I put these commands, separated by a semicolon, in the Startup Application to run on startup, it only mounts one of the partitions (always the same one). Why is this and how to fix it?

(At first I tried to have each mounting-command as a separate "startup program" but then the start-up program removed one of the programs, leaving me with only one mounted hard drive...)

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Thank's in advance!

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from the link you pasted Adding to startup gnome-session-properties Push the Add button. Choose a name, paste in your command and push the Add button what do you see in this gnome-session-screen ? are the two disks you want present there , if you remove the semicolon there and do add one by one do you get desired result –  Registered User Mar 15 '13 at 7:44
Hi, when press Add, paste my comand, and choose name and save, then I see both startup programs there. but when I exit the "startup application" and enter it again, I only see one, thus the startup program removed one of the programs... –  user136459 Mar 15 '13 at 7:55
Hmmm the external hard drive you mentioned is it always attached to your system or it is a portable device I tried the same on my system what I noticed is my disk got mounted at /dev/media what is the output on terminal when you type /usr/bin/udisks --mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/21318E3E64707B4D where does it gets mounted and while it is mounted and you type in /usr/bin/udisks --mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/6439FB1D652606C4 where does the second mount gets mounted does it go in same /media –  Registered User Mar 15 '13 at 7:58
Your link says ` This method is only available in Hardy and Karmic.` and below it says to use pysdm package and when I checked pysdm package links ubuntuforums.org/… it says this package is obsolete so you need to manually edit the fstab file –  Registered User Mar 15 '13 at 8:05

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To mount hard drives on startup, you need to edit the /etc/fstab file. Just open the file in your favourite editor(be sure to use sudo)

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

and add the appropriate lines for your hard drives

UUID="UUID here" /mount/point filesystem-type defaults 0 0

Just put in the UUID, mount point and filesystem type. See this for more info.

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Great! That solved it! I also had to create a folder manually where I wanted them to be mounted, but everything was explained at your link! Thanks! –  user136459 Mar 15 '13 at 8:57
this link is now dead, also I am having the same problem but can not see any folder named "fstab". Only a fodler named "fstab.d" which seems to be empty. Could someone elaborate on what was done here? –  Kalamalka Kid Mar 26 at 5:35
@KalamalkaKid I fixed the link using wayback machine. fstab is not a folder, it's a file. Open it in an editor and add the line above. –  Bolt64 Mar 26 at 17:35

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