I have my home server set to auto-login, specifically so that it will mount all external drives at startup. It no longer mounts drives at startup. Whyyyyyyyyy
Since when do I need to authenticate to mount my other hard drive partitions? Why aren’t they just mounted at boot?
I set Simple Backup Suite to back up to a 1 TB drive on my other computer. However, the drive no longer mounts when the machine boots up, so it wasn’t making backups for months, with no warning or error messages of any kind.
So then I set it up to back up to another drive with a FAT filesystem. I checked after a few weeks and it had a bunch of folders of backups. Great, it’s working!
Except not really. Since it backs up everything to a single .tgz file, and FAT filesystems can only accept a maximum file size of 4.0 GiB, it’s been silently halting and leaving corrupt, useless backup files. Smooth.

If I try to delete a mounted ISO, wouldn’t unmounting it be the obvious thing to do? Or maybe just a meaningful error message?
Yesterday I disconnected my external USB drive so that I could copy files off it to my laptop. When I was done, I plugged it back into the desktop, where it previously worked perfectly. Now it doesn’t appear on the desktop’s shared files anymore, and when I log in locally and try to mount it, it pops up THREE different dialogs, one of which says “”.



