Bonjour tout le monde,

I have finally fully installed linux mint and have been working on getting everything up and running. So far, I haven’t had many issues, but I am having trouble with my 2nd drive. I just want my 2nd drive to mount on boot, and for programs to be able to write to it.

I have looked up guides on pulling up the disks in mint and going into the mount options and selecting mount on boot. This works, but for some reason, programs lose permission to write to it. When I switch the drive back to ‘user session defaults’ programs can write to it, but it doesn’t mount on boot. I haven’t found anyone mentioning this problem so I thought I would post here. Also, my home folder isn’t encrypted and when I go to permissions on the drive, it says ‘permissions could not be determined’

Thanks

  • harsh3466@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    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.