Comment 6 for bug 42017

This really ought to be fixed. In my case, the external hard drive is connected by e-SATA, but I have the same problem. I need to automount the drive because it's the backup drive I use with my backup application (backintime), and backintime runs on a schedule set using crontab. If the drive isn't mounted, my data isn't backed up. Without automounting it I have to remember to mount it every time I boot up. Unless there's another way to automount a drive that I'm not aware of.