Filesystem

This page aims to document getting around a Linux file system

Automatically mounting with /etc/fstab

If you have a hard drive that you want mounted, you can edit your /etc/fstab file. First, you will want to get the UUID of your device. Note this UUID will appear to be a different format or length depending on the format of your drive.

You can use ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ to list a bunch of UUIDs, although it may be hard to determine which one is your drive. You can also use lsblk, which can be installed via sudo apt install libblkid1. Now run lsblk -f.

Once you have the UUID of your device, you can edit /etc/fstab and add lines such as:

UUID=2b941c0d-aee9-3377-88ff-fcad0224ede9 /srv/lavender_drive1 ext4 defaults,nofail 1 1

Editing the /etc/fstab file will not have any affect until the system is restarted. I actually recommend getting your settings and mountpoint setup using the mount command, which is not talked about on this page.