Set up automatic mounting for the disk during boot time.

mount.md

Set up automatic mounting for the disk during boot time.

Filesystem Status Check

Check the current filesystem status and how they are mounted on your computer.

$ mount
/dev/nvme0n1p2 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/nvme0n1p1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)

We can read this as the device /dev/nvme0n1p2 is mounted on a mount point /

Check the connected device

$ lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0         7:0    0     4K  1 loop /snap/bare/5
loop1         7:1    0 311,3M  1 loop /snap/code/158
loop2         7:2    0 311,3M  1 loop /snap/code/159
sda           8:0    0  16,4T  0 disk 
└─sda1        8:1    0  16,4T  0 part 
nvme0n1     259:0    0   1,8T  0 disk 
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   487M  0 part /boot/efi
└─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0   1,8T  0 part /

Multiple "loopX" partitions is because of "snaps," which is the Canonical's universal package management system. But for now, you can just ignore them. Here we want to auto-mount sda1 and when booting.

UUID (Universally Unique Identifier)

list your devices by UUID use blkid

$ sudo blkid
/dev/nvme0n1p2: UUID="ba3fb267-681f-4414-a479-886d13be256f" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="9daa9a7c-ed95-4d9b-92ce-2f336072b18a"
/dev/nvme0n1p1: UUID="D523-44B9" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="3288d544-c593-4777-a3aa-18c1a93030f8"
/dev/sda1: UUID="ac876a5c-83ac-4029-bad1-3ae5fa7c3831" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="primary" PARTUUID="3d070b69-4ea7-491c-aa84-21d1e73a26fb"

Create Mounting Points

sudo mkdir /media/mystorage

Filesystem Table /etc/fstab

/etc/fstab holds the essential details for automating partition mounting.

• file system: UUID of the disk
• mount point: Mount Point
• type: Type of file system
• options: Mount options of access to the device/partition (see the man page for mount).
• dump: Enable or disable backing up of the device/partition (the command dump). This field is usually set to 0, which disables it.
• pass: Controls the order in which fsck checks the device/partition for errors at boot time. The root device should be 1. Other partitions should be 2, or 0 to disable checking.

$ /etc/fstab
# <file system>                           <mount point>  <type>   <options>        <dump>  <pass>
UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-886d13be256f /               ext4    errors=remount-ro  0      1
UUID=xxxx-xxxx                            /boot/efi       vfat    umask=0077         0      1

Add new line for device /dev/sda1

UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx /media/mystorage ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 2

Mount all filesystems mentioned in fstab

mount -a