How to make Ubuntu Mount a Drive at Startup

1. First thing you got to do is Mount the drives you wish to be mounted at startup
2. Then run the following commands
• sudo fdisk -l
• cat /etc/fstab
• df -h



This commands will show you the following information.

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Whit this information you would be able to figure out what you should have instead of the following sample lines.

3. Now you need to run this command "sudo gedit /etc/fstab" which will open a text editor with the file where you need to enter the sample lines.

/dev/sda5 /media/Documents ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/MorenoISC ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

This line are the commands that tell ubuntu at start up to mount this drives:

Drive is /dev/sda5 and directory is /media/Documents. The rest of the command is to tell the format of the drive and to allow read and write to files in it.







Note: You need to install ntfs-3g to make sure your system supports NTFS

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g


The previous lines will install NTFS-3g to support NTFS drives.

The following line is to create the directory where you want to mount your Drives.


sudo mkdir /media/Documents /media/MorenoISC
sudo mount -a
df -h




And that is All... From now on those drives will be mounted at start up and will appear at the directory /media.....

Good Luck!!!