Mount USB drive on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
by zkan on Oct.31, 2009, under How-To
I write the solution for a problem that USB drive cannot be mounted automatically on Ubuntu 9.10.
Firstly, install gnome-mount.
sudo apt-get install gnome-mount
Secondly, go to System > Preferences > Startup Applications. And add this command.
gnome-mount -p xxx (change xxx to the volume label)
Finally, log out the system and it should work then. However, the problem still occurs after unmount and unplug the USB drive. To fix it, log out the system and then plug in the USB drive again. It is not a very good solution by the way. 
Also, find the bug report here.
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Kan Ouivirach
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November 16th, 2009 on 10:26 am
Hello. I’m gonna try this, but how do I get the volume drive from the external HDD?
November 21st, 2009 on 6:35 am
You should see it simply labeled as such under Nautilus ,among other ways.
March 17th, 2010 on 3:14 pm
In addition to above, strikes me that if you’re using that command through the startup dialog (and it’s been working), you could probably run it from the command line or terminal.
Alt-F2 to open the run dialog
gnome-mount -p xxx (change xxx to the volume label)
OR
Open Terminal
gnome-mount -p xxx (change xxx to the volume label)
If it’s really posing problematic, I can’t see why you couldn’t make a shortcut doing the same thing.