[SOLVED] Auto Mount 2nd HDD

antonym · 01-02-2022, 02:19 PM

I have a second hard drive on latest Fedora Workstation that requires a password to mount.
Can someone please step me in the right direction for making this drive available with no pass required when logged in?
Thank you.

mrmazda · 01-02-2022, 05:22 PM

Include an entry for it in /etc/fstab. Make its mount point a location with appropriate permissions for your login account. Add a user option in its fstab entry for passwordless mounting and unmounting. man fstab

frankbell · 01-02-2022, 09:04 PM

Here's an excellent tutorial on fstab: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-...-update-fstab/

It's the one that taught me how to use UUIDs in /etc/fstab.

fatmac · 01-03-2022, 04:53 AM

When more than one disk, you need to use UUID, so that it will always mount to your chosen mount point.

mrmazda · 01-03-2022, 05:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fatmac

When more than one disk, you need to use UUID

May use, not need to use. I have hundreds of fstabs and not one of them in current use contains any UUIDs. LABEL is an option (that I use as an alternative to UUID) that is much easier for human brains to type and remember.

antonym · 01-04-2022, 05:32 PM

Just getting to this now.....
I am ready to edit fstab - should I use UUID of disk or partition UUID?

Code:

/dev/sdb1: LABEL="HDD2" UUID="dcfb3e52-e7c8-4569-921b-7ed6e47bea4b" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="a28f670c-f56a-453e-ad79-cd79d8db552e"

antonym · 01-04-2022, 07:41 PM

I gave it a go and added this line in fstab:

Code:

UUID=dcfb3e52-e7c8-4569-921b-7ed6e47bea4b /run/media/rosie/HDD2 ext4 default 0 0

Unfortunately adding this crashed my system. I was able to use terminal with live USB edit this line out and am back up and running again.

Could someone please tell me what I did wrong?

michaelk · 01-04-2022, 07:48 PM

Code:

UUID=dcfb3e52-e7c8-4569-921b-7ed6e47bea4b /run/media/rosie/HDD2 ext4 default 0 0

The correct syntax is defaults not default.

My preference would be to mount the drive at /media/HDD2 but it does not matter.

antonym · 01-04-2022, 08:08 PM

The mount point is what how the installation of Fedora made it.

Could you please show me how you would make the entry in fstab for this drive?

michaelk · 01-04-2022, 08:32 PM

Many systems automatically mount to /run/media/username/... but you can mount it just about any where. /mnt or /media makes it eeasier. Just create a directory via mkdir and use that in the fstab file.

mrmazda · 01-04-2022, 09:46 PM

/run/media is a system thing. For a personal use filesystem, put it in a convenient location of your choice, e.g. somewhere in /home/, /home/myuser/ or /home/myuser/bigdata/.

antonym · 01-04-2022, 10:24 PM

Sorry to say but that is not really helpful.

Is it correct to say that it was my fstab edit and not the choice of mount point that was the problem?

I am not a Linux expert but I do know it is never useful to get pulled down the wrong path when troubleshooting any system.

antonym · 01-05-2022, 12:35 AM

Quote:

The correct syntax is defaults not default.

So all I need to change is default to defaults...like this?

Code:

UUID=dcfb3e52-e7c8-4569-921b-7ed6e47bea4b /run/media/rosie/HDD2 ext4 defaults 0 0

mrmazda · 01-05-2022, 12:52 AM

Yes, but I'd change it to this

Code:

UUID=dcfb3e52-e7c8-4569-921b-7ed6e47bea4b /home/rosie/HDD2 ext4 defaults 0 0

to improve access to its content, because less file manager navigation will be necessary to access it. Actually it's not what I would do. It's just a suggestion, since I use LABELs in all my own fstabs.

antonym · 01-05-2022, 09:53 AM

Thank you, appreciate the advice.

Can the mount point be changed just like that in fstab or somewhere else first?