'How To Automatically Mount Partitions / Hard Drives in Linux - Easy Guide'

In this video I cover a GUI method for automatically mounting disks and partitions at boot in Linux using Gnome Disks.

Step 1. Installation.

Gnome Disks can be installed from your distribution's repository using a pack manager.

For example, in Ubuntu based distributions, you would use the following Terminal command.

sudo apt install gnome-disk-utility

Step 2. Using Gnome Disks.

The interface of Disks is straightforward, on the left you have a list of all your physical disks, and on the right how each physical disk is broken up into partitions.

For example, on my system, I have a SSD with Windows 10 installed on it using several partitions.

To manually mount a partition, you click the triangle button, but to permanently mount it on boot, select the gear and cogs button, and then click the Edit Mount Options option.

Next, toggle off the User Session Defaults, and make sure that Mount at system startup is ticked, and in the Mount Point field, a location is specified.

Once done, click OK, and the next time you boot your system, that partition will now be mounted on boot.

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[nuvvin]

the way you explain it is really nice and simple. so thanks a lot Ryan!

[s.sradon]

Amazing audio, no unintelligible accent, really good video, very imformative.

[toyferrell]

I rarely comment, but after screwing up the fstab file repeatedly I have to say thank you. Why does everyone want to go through such a crazy ordeal when there is such a simple and easy solution for people that have been on windows their whole lives. Just one space or letter incorrect in fstab will stop your computer from even booting. Come on. Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is just an awesome answer to a rather simple issue.

[kimothel]

THANK YOU. I could not for the life of me succsesfully mount them by editing fstab and was about to give up before I found this. Very new to linxu at the moment but I'm giving it a fair go (POP! OS)

[arch]

I've switched to Linux on my main machine (Pop_OS!) I keep all my games on the main drive (which is a 500GB SSD) and I just use the 1TB secondary drive to keep backup files and my VMs.
My gaming experience on Linux has been great so far, currently playing through Dark Souls 3 again.
Good to see that I can automatically mount that drive easily if I choose to.

[IntelligentGaming]

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[superbar]

I know this is a year ago but maybe you can help, can i format a new hard drive using this method? I installed my linux on ssd and would want to put my games on the hdd, but it wouldn't mount because its on ntfs

[encapsulatio]

If you uninstall Gnome Disks do the same changes still work and persist?

[leolion.]

I got error Not authorized to perform operation (udisks-error-quark, 4)

[ChadTHAAD]

Yeah i do this every time i reinstall Linux ( POP OS! in my case ), just so i can access my steam Libraries.

[LankyFrankey]

Please make a tutorial for KDE Partition Manager, I can't for the life of me figure out how to make it so that the Drive is writable if I make it EXT4. I only use Gnome Disk Utility because of this issue xD