Comment 3 for bug 696130

The problem with devising a solution for this is that there has to be some means by which external volumes are differentiated in some way, and the importance of having certain volumes mounted is going to differ from one user to the next, a situation already illustrated in the closing comment of bug #389212 - "This appears to be much too complex to be considered a paper cut.".

The bottom line is that it's better to let the user choose which volumes they want to have automounted, rather than attempting to make that decision for them, which will only end up upsetting a lot of people.

What you can do immediately is to edit your fstab to automatically mount your chosen volumes in the same directory each time your computer starts up. This guide will take you through the necessary steps http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html.

I think a better, longer term, solution would be the development of a graphical tool that will allow the user to edit the fstab without having to do so using a text editor, which is something that can be done at http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com