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[GUIDE] Mount partition at startup with GNOME Disks

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Gnome Disks has many features: SMART monitoring, partition management, benchmarking and much more. One of the most useful but less known functions is the management of disk at boot. Disks allows you to choose with a few clicks which disk you want to mount at startup.


Do you want to mount your brand new NVMe disk? Or do you prefer to launch the partition with Windows NTFS / exFAT? Let's see how to proceed.

Mount partition at startup with GNOME Disks

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Disks is installed by default in many Linux distributions including Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint Cinnamon, MATE, Xubuntu and so on. If it is not installed, look for it with your package manager (look for gnome-disk-utility).

For each partition that you set up at startup, Gnome Disks adds an entry to the file  /etc/fstab. If there were no Disks (or similar tools) to mount a disk or partition automatically when the operating system was started, we should add it to the /etc/fstab file  after recovering the disk / partition UUID.

Everything is easier with Disks. Open it from your applications menu. Choose the hard disk from the Disks sidebar on the left, select the partition you want to mount at startup and then click on the toothed wheels -> Edit Mount Options.

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Toggle up User Session Defaults (may be called Automatic Mount Options on older versions) to enable the options below. Make sure it Mount at system startup is enabled. You can enter a name below Display Name. Set up settings should be okay for most of you. Dates OK:

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To test the changes, restart the system.

via: www.lffl.org

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