How to Mount a Hard Drive in Linux on Startup - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-20
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Tobleh
For the people that complain about the tutorial being too difficult or complex; here's a quick way to do it using a graphical user interface.
1. Open up your Disk Utility of choice (I use GNOME's disk utility that can be found in Ubuntu/Fedora/Pop_OS!) - it'll be named something along the lines of -Disks- or -Disk Utility-.
2. Select the hard drive of your choice that you want to mount
3. Look for the option to edit the mount options (in the GNOME utility, you click the gear icon on the left underneath the bar showing all of your partitions, it should be the second button and beside the square stop icon; then, click -Edit Mount Options-)
4. If your disk utility has a switch for user session defaults (like GNOME does), disable it (in GNOME's utility, user session defaults disables editing the rest of the mount options)
5. There should be options to mount the drive at system startup, show the drive in the user interface, have additional authorization, etc
6. Apply the settings! (provide user/root password when it prompts you)
Please recognize that there are MUCH easier ways to edit/set up something for the home user. It may be in settings or in disk utility, but IT DOES EXIST! The only real problem is that due to the customizability of Linux and the amount of distros available, the simple graphical tools available (that Windows and MacOS users may be used to) can be different for each person (like the exact details of where each button is, how something is described should be similar, but can still have different wording or placements depending on distro).
The reason why most Linux tutorials (to the detriment of novice Linux users, as most of them imply - due to failing to mention GUI tools - that you think that this is the ONLY way Linux users do something on their computers) use the command line is to (mostly) get around this fragmentation and avoid dealing with each individual's graphical setup. However, for the -basic things- like secondary drives, -THERE IS ALWAYS A GUI OPTION FOR THINGS LIKE THIS!!!- Stop assuming that every Linux user has to dive deep into the command line to do basic tasks! The power of Linux is that it gives you choices - GUIs for the users who want a quick and simple way to edit things, and the command line for users who gain more experience! Command line is REALLY useful, but for day-to-day activities, you can choose whether or not you deal with the GUI or the command line.
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For the people that complain about the tutorial being too difficult or complex; here's a quick way to do it using a graphical user interface.
1. Open up your Disk Utility of choice (I use GNOME's disk utility that can be found in Ubuntu/Fedora/Pop_OS!) - it'll be named something along the lines of -Disks- or -Disk Utility-.
2. Select the hard drive of your choice that you want to mount
3. Look for the option to edit the mount options (in the GNOME utility, you click the gear icon on the left underneath the bar showing all of your partitions, it should be the second button and beside the square stop icon; then, click -Edit Mount Options-)
4. If your disk utility has a switch for user session defaults (like GNOME does), disable it (in GNOME's utility, user session defaults disables editing the rest of the mount options)
5. There should be options to mount the drive at system startup, show the drive in the user interface, have additional authorization, etc
6. Apply the settings! (provide user/root password when it prompts you)
Please recognize that there are MUCH easier ways to edit/set up something for the home user. It may be in settings or in disk utility, but IT DOES EXIST! The only real problem is that due to the customizability of Linux and the amount of distros available, the simple graphical tools available (that Windows and MacOS users may be used to) can be different for each person (like the exact details of where each button is, how something is described should be similar, but can still have different wording or placements depending on distro).
The reason why most Linux tutorials (to the detriment of novice Linux users, as most of them imply - due to failing to mention GUI tools - that you think that this is the ONLY way Linux users do something on their computers) use the command line is to (mostly) get around this fragmentation and avoid dealing with each individual's graphical setup. However, for the -basic things- like secondary drives, -THERE IS ALWAYS A GUI OPTION FOR THINGS LIKE THIS!!!- Stop assuming that every Linux user has to dive deep into the command line to do basic tasks! The power of Linux is that it gives you choices - GUIs for the users who want a quick and simple way to edit things, and the command line for users who gain more experience! Command line is REALLY useful, but for day-to-day activities, you can choose whether or not you deal with the GUI or the command line.
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gonz
okay i guess it sort of worked. i don't see the neme of the hard drive on the side panel. second, i can't seem to move my stuffs around. for example, i had a folder of videos, but i accidentally put a folder of documents in there (i did this mistake on windows but i wanted to cut it and make a new folder) but it doesn't let me cut. unlike the other hard drive that i have that i didn't do the autumount it lets me move folders around.
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okay i guess it sort of worked. i don't see the neme of the hard drive on the side panel. second, i can't seem to move my stuffs around. for example, i had a folder of videos, but i accidentally put a folder of documents in there (i did this mistake on windows but i wanted to cut it and make a new folder) but it doesn't let me cut. unlike the other hard drive that i have that i didn't do the autumount it lets me move folders around.
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Aaron
Im having heck... I followed your instructions to a t... Made a Media file or /media
Changed the owner to me. And it mounts once i put the info in fstap
But everytime it is owned by root... Ive tried chown
Ive tried sudo Nautilus and manual change it be it says i dont gave permissions
I have the same problem in ubuntu and in pop! Os 20.04... I've tried looking up a solution but I'm plum lost
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Im having heck... I followed your instructions to a t... Made a Media file or /media
Changed the owner to me. And it mounts once i put the info in fstap
But everytime it is owned by root... Ive tried chown
Ive tried sudo Nautilus and manual change it be it says i dont gave permissions
I have the same problem in ubuntu and in pop! Os 20.04... I've tried looking up a solution but I'm plum lost
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Peacemekka
Nope. Doesn't work for me. As soon as I mount the drive it suddenly changes all the permissions of the mounted folders and I'm unable to write or create anything.
Edit: For those whom even setting correct umask and other options dont work. The solution is using ntfs-3g. I spent 3 days trying to figure out why I didnt have write permissions despite having everything correct.
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Nope. Doesn't work for me. As soon as I mount the drive it suddenly changes all the permissions of the mounted folders and I'm unable to write or create anything.
Edit: For those whom even setting correct umask and other options dont work. The solution is using ntfs-3g. I spent 3 days trying to figure out why I didnt have write permissions despite having everything correct.
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bacchuspdx
I can never understand why these tutorials never go STEP BY STEP EXACTLY how to do this. Maybe if you really want to help others take the time to actually follow your own directions and see if it works. How can you just post something and not test it? STEP BY STEP EXACTLY HOW. DO NOT ASSUME WE HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU ARE SHOWING US.
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I can never understand why these tutorials never go STEP BY STEP EXACTLY how to do this. Maybe if you really want to help others take the time to actually follow your own directions and see if it works. How can you just post something and not test it? STEP BY STEP EXACTLY HOW. DO NOT ASSUME WE HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU ARE SHOWING US.
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hamstersniffer
Great tutorial but Linux drives me nuts over crap like this. Something so basic as a secondary drive on your computer should NOT require this much stuff. If the gods of Linux distros ever want it to be the prevailing OS they have got to address the basics to make it user friendly for those who do not want to be a super user.
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Great tutorial but Linux drives me nuts over crap like this. Something so basic as a secondary drive on your computer should NOT require this much stuff. If the gods of Linux distros ever want it to be the prevailing OS they have got to address the basics to make it user friendly for those who do not want to be a super user.
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David
Hi mate. Great to the sudo nano /etc/fstab and it just gives
Overlay / overlay RW 0 0
Then line 2
Tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0
Just 2 lines but I was trying to make persistence on usb.
I'm running Kali full on the same laptop but wanted the use to take with me to anywhere I go. Never know when you'll need it
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Hi mate. Great to the sudo nano /etc/fstab and it just gives
Overlay / overlay RW 0 0
Then line 2
Tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0
Just 2 lines but I was trying to make persistence on usb.
I'm running Kali full on the same laptop but wanted the use to take with me to anywhere I go. Never know when you'll need it
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Kenneth
Newbie alert! Could you speak to where the best place to mount drives is and why? Elsewhere someone said, -anywhere you want to,- technically correct perhaps, but not helpful. I think you kind of addressed that a bit, but perhaps you could expand on it a bit.
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Newbie alert! Could you speak to where the best place to mount drives is and why? Elsewhere someone said, -anywhere you want to,- technically correct perhaps, but not helpful. I think you kind of addressed that a bit, but perhaps you could expand on it a bit.
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Steven
Thank you for sharing!-
I bought a brand new Seagate Expansion Desktop Drive 16TB, when I plugged it into my Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop, it doesn't turn on, the LED doesn't turn on but it works on my windows 10 laptop. What should I do?-
Thanks for your help!
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Thank you for sharing!-
I bought a brand new Seagate Expansion Desktop Drive 16TB, when I plugged it into my Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop, it doesn't turn on, the LED doesn't turn on but it works on my windows 10 laptop. What should I do?-
Thanks for your help!
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Abhishek
It just mounts my ntfs drives in read format only. Ohh I get it after running sudo mount -a it shows NTFS partitions are in unsafe state please properly shutdown your windows no hibernation.... Like that so it refused to mount in read write mode...
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It just mounts my ntfs drives in read format only. Ohh I get it after running sudo mount -a it shows NTFS partitions are in unsafe state please properly shutdown your windows no hibernation.... Like that so it refused to mount in read write mode...
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