[SOLVED] how to mount automatically a partition

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hello, is it possible to have a partition automatically mounted at startup?

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Yes. First enable automount and add the partitions to your fstab file.

1. Enabling automount (I think it works mainly for external partitions):
1a. Control Center > Disk > Configure Automount.
1b. Edit the file ~/.desktop-session/automount.conf

2. Updating fstab
2.1. Make a copy of your fstab (located in /etc/fstab just in case)
2.2. Connect the devices and manually mount the partitions you wish will automount
2.3. Open a terminal and execute
sudo make-fstab
2.4. Open your /etc/fstab file (with root privilegies) and check if the partitions are added. Change “noauto” to “auto” for all interested partitions. Save file once finished editing.

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i followed your instructions and they worked.
thanks for help!
something weird happened: i have now ALL the partitions mounted …
also ones i didn’t choose at 2.1 .

if it got too complicated to fix, i can mark the thread solved anyway.

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paulineb wrote:

something weird happened: i have now ALL the partitions mounted …

Make sure to only change noauto to auto for the partitions you WANT mounted and not all partitions.

Worst case scenario, restore your fstab with the one you had originally and that you saved somewhere

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2.1. Make a copy of your fstab (located in /etc/fstab just in case)

and start over (after restarting).

From there you could identify the partition you want automounted and manually add the info to the fstab instead of using make-fstab to update everything. Reading this file you can learn a lot about how partitions are mounted on your system.

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i forgot to save the file!
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ok, it’s fine anyway, i mark the thread solved.

… i am trying to use command line whenever possible,
but it in case, i found in antix repos gnome disks.

thanks for help!

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You can always edit manually fstab and delete all lines related to partitions you do not want antiX to see.

paulineb wrote:

i forgot to save the file!
🙂

This happened a lot to me. Now, every time I want to change something, I always make a copy of the original files. You never know when a mistake will force you to reinstall the program/system and must start from zero.

Good luck with your system!

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