You have to add the drive to a file called 'fstab' to have it be mounted on launch
If you want a video guide here's the one I learnt to do it from.
It is kinda annoying Linux doesn't seem to have a decent auto mount solution yet especially for people like me with 6+ drives in their machine.
Instead of using the gui for this, have you tried. creating a mount point and adding an entry to /etc/fstab?
Edit: fixed stupid autocorrect
No, I did see some tutorials on using that, but they said that any mistake could result in crashes and having an ubootable pc.. so I didn't want to risk it.
You do need to be careful, but you can check for errors after editing /etc/fstab by running the command sudo mount -a. With the drive attached but not mounted. (Also good practice to use the UUID of the drive in the fstab entry)
That command runs through etc/fstab and attempts to mount everything it is instructed to mount if it is not already mounted. And if there is an error it will let you know.
If you run sudo mount -a and you get no output in the terminal, then there are no errors, your drive should now be mounted, and you should be fine for reboots and it should mount on startup as expected.
I followed the video tutorial that was in another comment and it worked but my programs still can't write to it due to lacking permissions
At the terminal, go to the directory that contains the mount point for the disk (so if the mount point is /mnt/disk go to /mnt.
Run ls -l. This should list everything in /mnt with the owners and permissions. If your mount point (in this example disk) is owned by user and group root, then you just need to change ownership of the mount point and the disk attached.
With the disk attached, run sudo chown -R user:user disk
Replace each instance ofuser with your system username (if you’re not sure what you’re username is run whoami and it will tell you), and replace disk with your mount point directory.
Here’s what this does:
sudo: escalates your privileges to run the chown commandchown: the utility that allows you to change ownership of files and directories-R: tells chown to change ownership recursivelyuser:user specifies the user and group that will own the files/directories you are modifying.disk: specifies the file(s)/directories you want to change ownership for.Thank you! This worked!
Awesome! Glad I could help.
I love this comment because it explains the keywords in the command. Hats off to you.
NTFS?
No, ext4
In that case you can use chown
I followed another commenter's guide using that command and it worked, thanks
Backup the file and have a live USB ready just in case.
Already had to use it and timeshift back lol.
You can always check its consistency if you run a mount -a after editing fstab. But yeah, an error in the file can cause some annoyance-
You can always boot a live environment and edit the file from there if anything goes wrong.
How is it formated? It isn't NTFS or FAT is it?
No, I formatted it to ext4
Good you should be able to chown it to your user. Also for more long term storage I would recommend btrfs
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