PySDM for automounting partitions
Posted by spewit on 05/08/2009
PySDM ( Python Storage Device Manager ) can be used to customize your hard disk partitions without fiddling with the fstab file.
It’s as simple as:
sudo apt-get install pysdm
$gksudo pysdm
PySDM needs python and almost every linux distribution is bundled with python out of the box. So you would not need to install python.
One major use of pysdm is to enable auto-mounting ntfs ( your windows partitions ) in linux. To do that simply:
1. Select the partition from the left side-pane. Your hard disks and partitions may be named as sda* or hda*. To know which ones you want to auto-mount ( your ntfs ones ) simple select each and look for the ones with “ntfs” in their “type”.
2. Select the desired partition
3. Click on the assistant button
4. Check the option “The file system is mounted at boot time”
5. Uncheck “Mount file system in read only mode”
6. If you want everyone to mount/unmount the partition you can check the options:
“Allow any user to mount the file system”
“Allow a user to mount/unmount the file system”
7. Once you’re done click on Apply
Reboot and your ntfs partitions would be mounted automatically.
PySDM sourceforge page: http://pysdm.sourceforge.net/
