Thunar, FluxBox & auto mount

CopyrightPhilly · 05-14-2009, 07:57 AM

hello,

I have my OS installed on a USB HDD, on this drive I have my OS partitions and two other EXT3 partitions which are used for storage.

what I am wanting to do is setup flux to mount these two storage partitions automatically when it starts.

I have tried adding thunar --daemon & to ~/fluxbox/startup but it dose not automatically mount these partitions. the only way I can mount them is by opening thunar and clicking the partition from side pane, this then mounts the partition. I can not use /etc/fstab to mount these as the device location always changes on boot for some reason (/dev/sda1 to /dev/sdc1 and so on)

so, can anyone help me out with setting these partitions to automatically mount when I login?

cheers,
Philly

oh and before anyone asks I do have thunar-volman installed.

Padawan.AVT · 05-14-2009, 01:06 PM

Well, you can make some tweaky script that will mount your drives and add it to rc to be executed at boot time

Something like

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# Copyleft by Padawan.AVT :)
#
# Let's supose you have a drive like that:
#
#  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
#/dev/sdc1            1          60801   488384001   83  Linux
#/dev/sdc2            60901      3485143   3424242   83  Linux


DRIVE1=`fdisk -l | grep 488384001 | awk -F" " '{print $1}'`
DRIVE2=`fdisk -l | grep 3424242(or whatever you have in drive blocks) | awk -F" " '{print $1}'`

mount $DRIVE1 /mnt/sdc1
mount $DRIVE1 /mnt/sdc1