From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.ubuntu

With my Ubuntu system, I have a storage NTFS SSD that is always auto
mounted and ready to use once my PC is booted up. However, after a
recent power outage, it no longer auto mounts and I have to go into
discs utility and turn it on manually. Once that is done, it works fine.

The message I get when I try to access it before doing the
aforementioned is "Unable to find "/media/harvey/2B1dB185A6E8SE".
Please check the spelling and try again." I'm not positive, but the
power drop caused a change in the drive's ID as I believe it always
showed with something a lot shorter than the above.

So, how do I get the original behavior back (which is auto mount and
ready to go once system has booted)?

Thank you.
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From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.ubuntu

On Sun, 12/21/2025 2:44 AM, Harvey Sanenbum wrote:

With my Ubuntu system, I have a storage NTFS SSD that is always auto mounted and ready to use once my PC is booted up.-a However, after a recent power outage, it no longer auto mounts and I have to go into discs utility and turn it on manually.-a Once that is done, it works fine.

The message I get when I try to access it before doing the aforementioned is "Unable to find "/media/harvey/2B1dB185A6E8SE". Please check the spelling and try again."-a I'm not positive, but the power drop caused a change in the drive's ID as I believe it always showed with something a lot shorter than the above.

So, how do I get the original behavior back (which is auto mount and ready to go once system has booted)?

Thank you.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240212081438/help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticallyMountPartitions

Per-User Mounts

udisks

This is the modern replacement for gnome-mount. It's not gnome specific.

When you mount a disc normally with the file browser (nautilus etc)
it mounts disks by interacting with udisks behind the scenes.

/usr/bin/udisks --mount /dev/sdb1

*******

ls -al /dev/disk/by-uuid/ # get the identifier

udisksctl mount --block-device /dev/disk/by-uuid/1313-F422> # Add the new partition

...

Adding to startup

From the Ubuntu dash (click logo in top left) find startup applications or press Alt+F2 and type

gnome-session-properties

Push the Add button.

Choose a name, paste in your command and push the Add button # Paste in the command that works.

*******
https://askubuntu.com/questions/303694/where-is-startup-applications-user-config-file-for-disabled-and-enabled-applic

~/.config/gnome-session/saved-session
~/.config/autostart

*****************************

The pattern suggests, that you did the udiskctl-like form, and some
identifier has changed. Verify the identifiers and correct the situation.

I've never done anything like this. Should be interesting :-)

Paul
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On 12/21/25 3:29 AM, Paul wrote:

On Sun, 12/21/2025 2:44 AM, Harvey Sanenbum wrote:

With my Ubuntu system, I have a storage NTFS SSD that is always auto mounted and ready to use once my PC is booted up.-a However, after a recent power outage, it no longer auto mounts and I have to go into discs utility and turn it on manually.-a Once that is done, it works fine.

The message I get when I try to access it before doing the aforementioned is "Unable to find "/media/harvey/2B1dB185A6E8SE". Please check the spelling and try again."-a I'm not positive, but the power drop caused a change in the drive's ID as I believe it always showed with something a lot shorter than the above.

So, how do I get the original behavior back (which is auto mount and ready to go once system has booted)?

Thank you.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240212081438/help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticallyMountPartitions

Per-User Mounts

udisks

This is the modern replacement for gnome-mount. It's not gnome specific.

When you mount a disc normally with the file browser (nautilus etc)
it mounts disks by interacting with udisks behind the scenes.

/usr/bin/udisks --mount /dev/sdb1

*******

ls -al /dev/disk/by-uuid/ # get the identifier

udisksctl mount --block-device /dev/disk/by-uuid/1313-F422> # Add the new partition

...

Adding to startup

From the Ubuntu dash (click logo in top left) find startup applications or press Alt+F2 and type

gnome-session-properties

Push the Add button.

Choose a name, paste in your command and push the Add button # Paste in the command that works.

*******
https://askubuntu.com/questions/303694/where-is-startup-applications-user-config-file-for-disabled-and-enabled-applic

~/.config/gnome-session/saved-session
~/.config/autostart

*****************************

The pattern suggests, that you did the udiskctl-like form, and some identifier has changed. Verify the identifiers and correct the situation.

I've never done anything like this. Should be interesting :-)

Paul

Thanks. Worked like a charm!
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On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:44:42 -0500, Harvey Sanenbum wrote:

The message I get when I try to access it before doing the
aforementioned is "Unable to find "/media/harvey/2B1dB185A6E8SE".
Please check the spelling and try again."

The most reliable way of mounting volumes at bootup is via filesystem
ID. Look in your /etc/fstab and you should see existing examples of
what this looks like.

You can discover what this is for the particular block device with the
lsblk command.
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