Auto Mount a Drive on Startup

One thing different in Ubuntu and Windows is when you have multiple drive/partition, in Windows, it will automatically mount all your drive/partition and you can easily access them through the My Computer; but in Ubuntu, it only mount the main drive (the one Ubuntu is install in it) by default. If you wish to access files on another drive/partition, you will have to open it or mount it. There is not much problem about that one, but the problem comes when you have auto started program that need to use the files in the non-primary drive. For me, the problem happen when I use Dropbox. I store my dropbox files in my Data drive, and when it auto started when Ubuntu started, it will pop out an error saying that it can't find the dropbox folder, because the Data drive is not yet mounted. In this guide, I will shows on how to easily enable the auto-mount for your non-primary drive.

1st step is to go to Ubuntu Software Center, and search for an application called MountManager. Install it.

After you install it, don't launch the application 1st, now, mount the drive you wish to auto-mount. After that, launch the MountManager, it should ask for your password.

Select the drive (for auto-mount) under the device. Under the setting at the right side:

• Click "Show default options"
• Change the "Who can mount the partition" to Everyone
• Make sure the "Mount the partition during start of the operating system" is checked.
• Don't do any other changes (if you accidentally change something else, restart the MountManager application).

Now click on "Partition" (top left corner) and click Apply. It should ask for confirmation, simply proceed.

After you apply it, there will be a message saying the Configuration file was replaced by new content successfully.

Now you can restart the Ubuntu and you should have the drive mounted automatically.