Today I installed another HDD as a backup disk and entered it in fstab for mounting (noauto). Only one problem: I gave the partition a name with gparted, but it is not displayed in Thunar (sidebar). It only says Datenträger 1.7 TB. what can I do?
Exactly what type of parition are you trying to display in Thunar?
you can obtain what you want by directly editing /etc/fstab
or you can use Disks (package gnome-disk-utility) if you like GUIs more (like I do :P)
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It’s a ext4-partition, mounted under /media/backup.
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See the solution provided by Nate and then attempt a reboot too. Occasionally, a live file structure name may not always populate as it should.
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I entered it manually in the fstab:
,x-gvfs-name=Backups
it works fine! Thanks for your help!
One more question: is it necessary to set the check option in fstab for a partition that should not be mounted automatically at boot? I have set this backup partition to 0:
UUID=dd3668ed-5ff8-48ea-b33a-023da89b4ae3 /media/Backup ext4 defaults,noauto,x-gvfs-show,x-gvfs-name=Backup 0 0