Mounting Drives in Ubuntu

All local drives including NTFS and FAT32 partitions(Windows partitions) will be mounted automatcially as the user logs in. Any removable media like CD/DVD/pendrive will also be mounted automatically when it is inserted into the drive.

 

All the drives will be mounted onto the drive “/media” i.e. if say your pendrive name is “Roshan”, then it’s path would be “/media/Roshan”. You can browse all your drives from the Desktop or from the (Places) Menu.

 

 

 

 

When you want unmount(or eject) it, right-click on that drive in the Desktop or the File Browser and click “Unmount volume”.

 

 

If you unmount local drives including NTFS and FAT32 partitions(Windows partitions) , they will be unmounted only for that particular session. If you want to “hide” a particular drive i.e. Suppose you don’t want a drive to be mounted when you are in Ubuntu permanently, give this command at the terminal:

“ sudo gedit /etc/fstab ”

A window will be opened. “fstab” is a file which contains the static file system information.

 

 

You can observe the code, understand it and change/customize it as you want; precisely the advantage of FREE SOFTWARE. However, unless you are an expert programmer/developer, don’t go too much into meddling with it.

 

Now, to “hide” a drive, first learn its path from the File Browser. Consider the drive named “DRV1VOL5”.

 

 

Its path is “/media/sda6”. Then, just comment that line in the “fstab” file which contains information about that drive. Observe that in the “fstab” file, “/media/sda6” is present in the line no. 22. So comment that line. To comment a line, add a “#” at the start of the line.

 

 

If you observe you see that there are 2 paths associated with a particular drive say “DRV1VOL5″, one is “/dev/sda6″ which contains the DEVICE file for that drive and the other is “/media/sda6″ which is where actually that drive will be mounted.

 

By default, all local drives including NTFS and FAT32 partitions(Windows partitions) will be READ-ONLY, that is you won’t be able to write any file into it. To make these drives WRITABLE, install “Automatix read/write NTFS and FAT32 Mounter” using “Automatix2”.