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Ubuntu - How to automount an external drive at a preconfigured mount point?

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Mar 15, 202611139 views
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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: This allows me to manually mount the volume at /p by…

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UUID=2BE905C238C1F724   /p   ntfs-3g   defaults   0   0   # Passport 320GB

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GeorgeM is close, but not close enough. On Ubuntu, 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 achi…

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