[hardy] automount method changed

I would have to agree. I'm a relatively experienced computer user and fstab still scares me. A switch to the old method would be better unless a gui of some sort is made.

The problem is, that ubuntu uses UUID-s in the fstab, which is much more complicated to deal with by hand. GNOME deals nice with HAL, so it detects all my windows and other partitions easily. Other distros switch this feature auto ON, Ubuntu should do so, and disable the fstab editing in the installer too. I understand that the fstab way is necessary in xubuntu and fluxbuntu, but not in kubuntu and ubuntu.

i understand this might not be a bug, strictly speaking, but i preferred by far the old way. is there an easy way to switch this behaviour?
for example, i have my music collection on a ntfs partition...amarok, already running, rebuilt the collection when i mounted the partition...it takes minutes...and then all the problems with symlinks and bookmarks...

Ditto. Please bring it back.

I'm in the same boat. How do I get my partitions back!?

A change this drastic should not go by so quietly between upgrades.

I remember first time I installed ubuntu , this wasnt a prob!!! please help me, every time I start ubuntu , I gotta mount all the partitions in order to be able to use my stuff

ok, here is the solution i found, without manually changing configuration files.

install "ntfs-config" from the repositories, or from the terminal with:

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config

then type in a terminal

sudo ntfs-config

and insert your password.

then you can select the partitions you want to be automounted, give it a mount point (you can call it whatever you like, for example "win", or "ntfs"), and enable write support.

when you restart your computer, you should see your partition automounted, as happened by default in gutsy.

yeah thanx alot , works fine for me
but a problem that this methos has is that first of all you dont know which partition is which one(like sd1 doesnt make sense)and another one is first you have to unmount all the mounted drives if you want to add them to automount , otherwise you wont see them on thwe list to choose

If I disable automount, when I try to use the panel mounter, I get a box saying "Mount Error", no other text, a DoNotEnter icon, and an OK button.

So in Hardy, the choices are either automounting the half-dozen partitions on my USB mirror drive, or not being able to mount at all.

Why does each new release of Ubuntu break things that just worked and changed it to some horribly complex method that requires the console anyway?

You can comment out the "do not automount fixed media" paragraph in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi, and after you mount an internal drive the first time, tell it to keep the authorization for this forever.