OMG someone who actually does a video were everyone can understand. You actually show step by step. I have watched so many videos and read tons of online forms and this was so simple fast and clean to the end. You really took the frustration out of it. THANK YOU.
This needs to be way higher in search. I've been using various Linux distros for 2 years as my daily driver, and I always edited /etc/fstab manually because that's the first 3 results on Google. This is so much easier. Also, Disks is available on most distros (it's part of the GNOME tools, but works on other DEs as well)
I used this video about 6 months ago to mount a hard drive to my system, worked great for mounting my m.2! I remember getting very frustrated when auto mounting via the terminal and then screwing up my entire system. Obviously it was my fault, but I am happy that I was able to do this through a gui as it just makes it a lot easier to understand. One day, I will be able to use the terminal to do a lot of tasks on Linux, but right now I am taking things slow.
I appreciate how you presented it in a very easy way. I needed my Windows partitions because they contain most of my steam games, so I needed them to mount because having to click on the drives and re-add the drives in steam is cumbersome. Thank you so much! It's good to know there's an easy way :)
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!, Ive been trying to mount an old WD external HDD to linux 22 for 2 days now, after 4 minutes of your video Ive got it mounted!. God bless you!!!.
my guy, THANK YOU!, I'm new to Linux, and I had the same issue. I started looking for info and people recommended certain steps using the terminal...but you just made my day. Thanks again. 🤠
Holy cow. I can't believe how easy you made this. I mean, I think it's ridiculous Linux doesn't just mount internal drives automatically but this tutorial worked fantastic. Thanks so much!
I am shifting OS on my aged "home purpose" computer spinning many disks, before the W10 end-of-life, and have watched/read many videos/articles that is somewhat complicated in regards to automount ntfs disks. The method you show via GUI is as simple as it should be. I had no idea this existed. If this works you deserve many, very big, glasses of milk. Thanks!
@@marcus6381 I’m not a total Windows fanboy but I certainly would keep my main PC on Windows 10 since I also use it for gaming. My laptop is Linux Mint which I also love.
@OShackHennessy That's what I did as well for half a year but last month I started experimenting with gaming on Linux since Windows 10 will end support next year and so far I have had no trouble as I don't generally play games with anti cheats. So now I use Linux mint on both laptop and gaming pc with a small Windows install if I ever need it.
@@marcus6381 This is my plan too, but thanks to my luck an update on my Linux Mint system broke something and it is only thanks to timeshift (via live session over USB stick) that I could restore to a previous version. For some reason I am not able to follow through with this tutorial since something changed (got no LABEL entry).
o my god just installed linux for the 2nd time after trying to add that uuid to that setip file and ending up twice with a broken linux that didn't want to boot and now i look 3 minutes at your video and it was easy and it works. Finally my other drives are mounted at startup
Why do some people show how they do it with the UUID and the Terminal only if it is this simple? Is it to show off their knowledge? Thank you for showing the simple and intended way.
Would this option work for me if I have the following situation, please? I have my old HDD in hand, which comes from an old Powerbook G3 Psimo (IDE socket - MacOS X 10.2.8) through an adapter connected to my USB connector in Linux Mint (Virginia - Latest) running on my DELL 7720? I need to access my files on this drive - I don`t expect to emulate the environment as I found no information about such an option available, though do note it would be nice to boot from it.
I tried this in Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon and it worked. I was able to skip a step by selecting the label first, which auto-filled the Mount Point. I have been trying to this for months, but nearly all the tutorials I fount used the terminal. WHY? when this option is so easy.
I'm slamming my head on the desk right now .... how could it be THIS easy but any search engine's results are pages worth of uppity elitists talking down to newcomers about their deficient skills in reading development documentation or getting sidetracked by arguing semantics between each other??? I can appreciate being told that anything you can click on in the interface is a command in the terminal because that is good knowledge of how linux works, but man.... This is the kind of tutorial that would ACTUALLY help people move over to a better OS. Thank you!
That was my frustration years ago when switching over to Linux. I think there's a mentality that tries real hard to make it as complicated as possible just to show how smart they are. Those people won't win any converts for sure
Thank you! This was amazingly simple to follow and do. Why do all the Linux nerds/GateKeepers/"Power Users"/A***oles insist on "Just open a terminal window" and then type line after line of gibberish to do such a simple task like this that could be done in a GUI in a couple of minutes. I'm still looking for something as simple to access and mount my NAS drives, which is turning in to a headache. Until the nerds/Gatekeepers/"Power Users"/A***oles get it through their heads that a method as easy as this is necessary, rathter than go through the terminal, and inevitably have it all go wrong, or a command/file not recognised over and over again, Linux will never be as easy or accessable to use as Windows, and will never be a popular desktop system. This is one simple little way that makes is better.
IKR? it blows my mind how complicated some people make things. Linux is the best operating system but a lot of geeks turn people away. As for NAS drives, they don't have to be mounted since they are network drives. once you give access, they show up in your network automatically
6 месяцев назад
"The more you suffer the more it shows you really care." - The Offspring - Self Esteem
Thanks for the video. The issue I'm having is even though the partition mounts at boot, it doesn't have any write permissions, is there a command I can add to the mount options so it becomes writable?
@@burnbarrelmedia Thanks for the response. When I do that it says "You are not the owner so you can't change these permissions" Browsing the web I added these options to the ones shown in the video rw,umask=0022,gid=1000,uid=1000 With these, it now shows my user as the owner but even though I can change the drop down to read and write, it doesn't save it, therefore the result is the same.
@@Mastario Go into your file system folder, right click inside and open as root. Then right click on the mnt folder (or wherever they are mounted) and find the drive that way. Right click on the drive, then properties, now you are root and can give your normal username full access
@@burnbarrelmedia That didn't do it either as it also didn't save the settings but I managed to do it by mounting it to another folder where I used the chown command on that folder to give it permissions before mounting. I also had to run the command ntfsfix on the partition, as it was telling me that it was an unsafe partition, which I think might have been the real culprit as it said the drive could only be read-only. Thank you so much for helping me solve it!
Yes and how do you auto mount encrypted drives? Because I've got full disk encryption on my main drive using LUKS and then my secondary storage drive has been encrypted using LUKS as well. It's definitely not wise to leave your drives unencrypted.
Mounting it does not format it. But you can format the drive in the "disks" menu. If you had bitlocker installed on windows, that may be why you can't read it in linux
I have furthermore not a single entry withingmy mnt folder. Not even the actually "mounted" ones that I have access on. What is going on here? I guess I need a more up-to-date tutorial on this. Something with the recent update screwed my abilties to access my files.
I had access to my files just a short while ago. Then I got an update on my Linux Mint Cinnamon system and everything is screwed now. I changed nothing and thought a restart might help to regain access to my volumes. Now I am stuck on the boot sequence asking me for a login to my system "Linux Mint 22 Wilma". I don't get it... I had cinnamon installed. What is "Wilma" now? This should never happen and the user not to have to fix it. All the instruction are confusing, the variety of them overwhelming and nothing helps me. THIS is the effing reason why Linux will be a niche thing. I am emotionally exhausted. I do not have the nerves for that and I am really thinking to stop fiddling with PC for the rest of my life. Looks like I have to stick to windows for now. Was testing Linux in the hope it has become convenient. I was wrong.
Update: I could manage to restore my system to a previous version thanks to Timeshift via live session (from USB). What a nerve wrecking experience. Still got no access to one of my harddrives... and this tutorial is unfortunately not helping me further with this issue, since something changed in the recent 2 years.
It must have a label when you formatted it. If it's empty, reformat it and give it a label. Look for the Words LABEL= . If you're running XFCE the label option might not be there. But give it a mount point and it will mount anyways
Finally. I was researching this auto-mount topic trying different goofy Linux stuff, but you method is the way. I'm encountering other quite major issue with transiting from Windows to Linux - I've got 4 HDDs totally plugged into my PC and Linux can acess 2 out of them. In app, that I've discovered thanks to you called Disks, it freakin says that it sees unallocated space instead of NTFS partitions on these disks I can't acess on Linux. I can acess them though Windows 7 [I got Linux /Windows dual boot]. What a weird situation. Any experience with sucha stuff? How to make Linux acess these partitions? I don't want to loose any data so I'm looking for non invasive work arround or something.
Unallocated means Linux sees no data. I would off-load the data using windows and then allocate the space and reformat it in Linux and then the drive will be accessible
@@burnbarrelmedia Nah, I barley fried 200GB d:/ partition on my Windows HDD for Linux Mint. You kno how it is with files, stuff so hard to find and download eventually clogs all your HDDs haha
I did this and it mounted the drive automatically but when I tried to copy a file to the drive I got an error message: Error opening file “/mnt/WD 1TB/My Documents/linux info.txt”: Permission denied What's up with that?
@@burnbarrelmedia I'm the sole user of this computer. I give sudo commands. I put it back the way it was, restarted and mounted the drive manually and everything worked. The drive name (WD 1TB) has a folder in the mnt directory. Am I missing something?
Right click in the root folder of that drive. Select "open as root" Right click on the folder you want to take ownership of. Select "properties, then permissions. Make yourself the owner and give full access.
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OMG someone who actually does a video were everyone can understand. You actually show step by step. I have watched so many videos and read tons of online forms and this was so simple fast and clean to the end. You really took the frustration out of it. THANK YOU.
YW and Thank You
No nonsense. To the point. Clear guide to follow. I wish all ' How-To's ' were to this standard. Thanks👍
Thank you
oh man. This was easier than I thought it would be. Another reason to love Linux Mint. Thank you so much!
You're welcome!
This needs to be way higher in search. I've been using various Linux distros for 2 years as my daily driver, and I always edited /etc/fstab manually because that's the first 3 results on Google. This is so much easier.
Also, Disks is available on most distros (it's part of the GNOME tools, but works on other DEs as well)
Thanks
Just perfect. A quick and easy way to mount drives on Linux Mint startup. Skillfully presented. Very easy to follow. Many thanks. 😊👍
YW
You're the champ! You explained it so simple and concise and to the point.
Thanks
This man is a national hero lol... The Linux Noobs association thanks you.
LOL Thanks
I used this video about 6 months ago to mount a hard drive to my system, worked great for mounting my m.2! I remember getting very frustrated when auto mounting via the terminal and then screwing up my entire system. Obviously it was my fault, but I am happy that I was able to do this through a gui as it just makes it a lot easier to understand. One day, I will be able to use the terminal to do a lot of tasks on Linux, but right now I am taking things slow.
I appreciate how you presented it in a very easy way. I needed my Windows partitions because they contain most of my steam games, so I needed them to mount because having to click on the drives and re-add the drives in steam is cumbersome. Thank you so much! It's good to know there's an easy way :)
Glad it could help!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!, Ive been trying to mount an old WD external HDD to linux 22 for 2 days now, after 4 minutes of your video Ive got it mounted!. God bless you!!!.
Thank you!
my guy, THANK YOU!, I'm new to Linux, and I had the same issue. I started looking for info and people recommended certain steps using the terminal...but you just made my day. Thanks again.
🤠
YW
Worked as of Mint 22.0. Even works to remove the problems with the new ntfs3 drivers bug. Good job.
Holy cow. I can't believe how easy you made this. I mean, I think it's ridiculous Linux doesn't just mount internal drives automatically but this tutorial worked fantastic. Thanks so much!
You're welcome
I am shifting OS on my aged "home purpose" computer spinning many disks, before the W10 end-of-life, and have watched/read many videos/articles that is somewhat complicated in regards to automount ntfs disks. The method you show via GUI is as simple as it should be. I had no idea this existed. If this works you deserve many, very big, glasses of milk. Thanks!
How many of us are here because of the death of windows 10 😢
@OShackHennessy That's my reason as well. Have to use windows 11 at work but at home I would like an OS I actually like.
@@marcus6381 I’m not a total Windows fanboy but I certainly would keep my main PC on Windows 10 since I also use it for gaming. My laptop is Linux Mint which I also love.
@OShackHennessy That's what I did as well for half a year but last month I started experimenting with gaming on Linux since Windows 10 will end support next year and so far I have had no trouble as I don't generally play games with anti cheats. So now I use Linux mint on both laptop and gaming pc with a small Windows install if I ever need it.
@@marcus6381 This is my plan too, but thanks to my luck an update on my Linux Mint system broke something and it is only thanks to timeshift (via live session over USB stick) that I could restore to a previous version. For some reason I am not able to follow through with this tutorial since something changed (got no LABEL entry).
This is just what I was looking for to make my switch from windows. Thank you. I may even stick with a choice to use Mint Cinnamon.
I have been using Mint for years and never looked back. I also love cinnamon.
o my god just installed linux for the 2nd time after trying to add that uuid to that setip file and ending up twice with a broken linux that didn't want to boot and now i look 3 minutes at your video and it was easy and it works. Finally my other drives are mounted at startup
YOU ARE THE BEST. MY PARTITIONS GOT BROKEN AND WAS TOTALLY BLOCKED FROM USING MY PC. YOU HELPED RESOLVE IT!
Subbing and watching all your videos
@@knotratulshorts Glad to help
Thanks man you and a couple other people are saving me.. I am learning mint rn. Its gonna be really hard for me to go back to Windows lol loving Mint
I switched in 2016. Thought it would be hard but it wasn't. I never looked back.
Excellent job to share this technique that I have been waiting for a long time
Glad it was helpful!
Simple. Quick. Helpful. Thank you.
Thank you for this information. Extremely helpful. I wish I found this video earlier lol.
Glad it was useful for you
It just worked 😀 for LMDE6, Thanks a lot 🥰
You're welcome
Excellent tutorial. Very easy to understand. Solved my Problem. Thank you.
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Thank you for your video. Just what I was looking for.
Thank you so much! Followed your instructions and everything just works how I want it to.
Glad it worked out
Thank you, that's what I was looking for
Short and sweet! Thank you very much!
You're welcome!
Thanks so much my friend!!! :)
And you've got it right, it's quick and simple!!
EXCELLENT! Worked 1st time, Thank You SIR!
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Wow, that was so easy actually, thanks a lot for this
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Thank you so much. Excellent tutorial.
YW
You are a GOAT
FINNALLY I DID IT
Thats such a quick way to do it thank you so much
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Thanks man I am new to Linux really helped
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Fresh convert to Linux here, thank you!
You're welcome
Why do some people show how they do it with the UUID and the Terminal only if it is this simple? Is it to show off their knowledge? Thank you for showing the simple and intended way.
Yeah, I'm not sure why they complicate it
thank you very much, your video was very helpful
You're welcome
Would this option work for me if I have the following situation, please?
I have my old HDD in hand, which comes from an old Powerbook G3 Psimo (IDE socket - MacOS X 10.2.8) through an adapter connected to my USB connector in Linux Mint (Virginia - Latest) running on my DELL 7720?
I need to access my files on this drive - I don`t expect to emulate the environment as I found no information about such an option available, though do note it would be nice to boot from it.
I tried this in Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon and it worked. I was able to skip a step by selecting the label first, which auto-filled the Mount Point. I have been trying to this for months, but nearly all the tutorials I fount used the terminal. WHY? when this option is so easy.
Doesn't work in XFCE of Linux Mint as there is no LABEL= in the drop down even when I have labeled it.
I'm slamming my head on the desk right now .... how could it be THIS easy but any search engine's results are pages worth of uppity elitists talking down to newcomers about their deficient skills in reading development documentation or getting sidetracked by arguing semantics between each other???
I can appreciate being told that anything you can click on in the interface is a command in the terminal because that is good knowledge of how linux works, but man.... This is the kind of tutorial that would ACTUALLY help people move over to a better OS.
Thank you!
That was my frustration years ago when switching over to Linux. I think there's a mentality that tries real hard to make it as complicated as possible just to show how smart they are. Those people won't win any converts for sure
This was so useful!!
Thanks for this. I have a similar backup idea to you. What backup software do you use? Have you done a video on it?
I use Grsync. I could do a video on it for sure
@@burnbarrelmedia Thanks for the reply. That would be helpful I'm sure.
this is so much easier than screwing around with fstab
thanks for the video, bud! really helpful
You're welcome
Best tutorial
Thx
Thank you! This was amazingly simple to follow and do. Why do all the Linux nerds/GateKeepers/"Power Users"/A***oles insist on "Just open a terminal window" and then type line after line of gibberish to do such a simple task like this that could be done in a GUI in a couple of minutes. I'm still looking for something as simple to access and mount my NAS drives, which is turning in to a headache. Until the nerds/Gatekeepers/"Power Users"/A***oles get it through their heads that a method as easy as this is necessary, rathter than go through the terminal, and inevitably have it all go wrong, or a command/file not recognised over and over again, Linux will never be as easy or accessable to use as Windows, and will never be a popular desktop system. This is one simple little way that makes is better.
IKR? it blows my mind how complicated some people make things. Linux is the best operating system but a lot of geeks turn people away. As for NAS drives, they don't have to be mounted since they are network drives. once you give access, they show up in your network automatically
"The more you suffer the more it shows you really care."
- The Offspring - Self Esteem
Thanks a lot by this video.
Really, really useful.
I use Debian.
You're welcome
Great video, thanks
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thanks , help me a lot:)
Thanks for the video. The issue I'm having is even though the partition mounts at boot, it doesn't have any write permissions, is there a command I can add to the mount options so it becomes writable?
Right click on the drive, select properties. Click the permissions tab. Give yourself full access
@@burnbarrelmedia Thanks for the response. When I do that it says "You are not the owner so you can't change these permissions"
Browsing the web I added these options to the ones shown in the video rw,umask=0022,gid=1000,uid=1000 With these, it now shows my user as the owner but even though I can change the drop down to read and write, it doesn't save it, therefore the result is the same.
@@Mastario Go into your file system folder, right click inside and open as root. Then right click on the mnt folder (or wherever they are mounted) and find the drive that way. Right click on the drive, then properties, now you are root and can give your normal username full access
@@burnbarrelmedia That didn't do it either as it also didn't save the settings but I managed to do it by mounting it to another folder where I used the chown command on that folder to give it permissions before mounting. I also had to run the command ntfsfix on the partition, as it was telling me that it was an unsafe partition, which I think might have been the real culprit as it said the drive could only be read-only. Thank you so much for helping me solve it!
Many thanks!
You're welcome
Nice keep it simple
Thank you very much!!!
YW
Thanks❤
Thank you🥰
You're welcome
Thx for your Video.. But.. how can i mount my 4 NAS Disks on my Synology on Startup?
Try this
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Yes and how do you auto mount encrypted drives? Because I've got full disk encryption on my main drive using LUKS and then my secondary storage drive has been encrypted using LUKS as well. It's definitely not wise to leave your drives unencrypted.
When I type the password for my LUKS drives, I just tell it "remember forever"!
I tried this but I am unable to make any changes to the drive like create a folder or paste anything into the drive.
Very usefull thx. It worked.
You're welcome
This trick also works on Zorin.
Unfortunately won't be able to use this method as I have no graphical environment, good information though!
Thank you sir
You're welcome
Dude thank you 🍺
You're welcome
thank you
Thanks man!
YW
Thanks man 👌👌👌
You're welcome
thank u brother
You're welcome!
Does mouting system format the HDD in linux? I have come from Windows but cannot access HDD.
Mounting it does not format it. But you can format the drive in the "disks" menu. If you had bitlocker installed on windows, that may be why you can't read it in linux
King shit thank you.
thanks man! now i have problem with the ownership, i wanna change the ownership from root to user, any idea?
You change the user credentials in Adminstration/Users and Groups
Great video thanks, but mine won't let me change the Identify as, it's stuck on LABEL=HDD, which is fine but I would like to change it.
Click on the gears and select "edit partition". You can change the name there
@@burnbarrelmedia "edit filesystem" did the trick for me, there was a box to change label in there, nothing in "edit partition" to change the name.
@@phottomatt4202 you're right. my bad
I seem not to have the option to use "LABEL=Whatevername" in Identify As.
What am I missing here?
I have furthermore not a single entry withingmy mnt folder. Not even the actually "mounted" ones that I have access on. What is going on here?
I guess I need a more up-to-date tutorial on this. Something with the recent update screwed my abilties to access my files.
I had access to my files just a short while ago. Then I got an update on my Linux Mint Cinnamon system and everything is screwed now.
I changed nothing and thought a restart might help to regain access to my volumes. Now I am stuck on the boot sequence asking me for a login to my system "Linux Mint 22 Wilma".
I don't get it... I had cinnamon installed. What is "Wilma" now?
This should never happen and the user not to have to fix it.
All the instruction are confusing, the variety of them overwhelming and nothing helps me.
THIS is the effing reason why Linux will be a niche thing.
I am emotionally exhausted. I do not have the nerves for that and I am really thinking to stop fiddling with PC for the rest of my life.
Looks like I have to stick to windows for now.
Was testing Linux in the hope it has become convenient.
I was wrong.
Update: I could manage to restore my system to a previous version thanks to Timeshift via live session (from USB).
What a nerve wrecking experience.
Still got no access to one of my harddrives... and this tutorial is unfortunately not helping me further with this issue, since something changed in the recent 2 years.
I can't find the label in the dropdown, is there something special to do to have it appear?
It must have a label when you formatted it. If it's empty, reformat it and give it a label. Look for the Words LABEL= . If you're running XFCE the label option might not be there. But give it a mount point and it will mount anyways
@@burnbarrelmedia Indeed, it mounted with no problem. Thank you for answering!
TY!!!!!
YW
Finally. I was researching this auto-mount topic trying different goofy Linux stuff, but you method is the way. I'm encountering other quite major issue with transiting from Windows to Linux - I've got 4 HDDs totally plugged into my PC and Linux can acess 2 out of them. In app, that I've discovered thanks to you called Disks, it freakin says that it sees unallocated space instead of NTFS partitions on these disks I can't acess on Linux. I can acess them though Windows 7 [I got Linux /Windows dual boot]. What a weird situation. Any experience with sucha stuff? How to make Linux acess these partitions? I don't want to loose any data so I'm looking for non invasive work arround or something.
Unallocated means Linux sees no data. I would off-load the data using windows and then allocate the space and reformat it in Linux and then the drive will be accessible
@@burnbarrelmedia Thanks 4 the reply. That's 2,5 TB of data I need to move and I don't have anywhere to. I quess I'm stuck.
Can you do one drive at a time? move the data, format the drive and then do the second one@@OlSkunGun
@@burnbarrelmedia Nah, I barley fried 200GB d:/ partition on my Windows HDD for Linux Mint. You kno how it is with files, stuff so hard to find and download eventually clogs all your HDDs haha
Ty Big Time
You're welcome
great video but why lightmode
Because dark is depressing!
I did this and it mounted the drive automatically but when I tried to copy a file to the drive I got an error message:
Error opening file “/mnt/WD 1TB/My Documents/linux info.txt”: Permission denied
What's up with that?
You're not administrator perhaps?
@@burnbarrelmedia I'm the sole user of this computer. I give sudo commands. I put it back the way it was, restarted and mounted the drive manually and everything worked. The drive name (WD 1TB) has a folder in the mnt directory. Am I missing something?
@@waltp3373 Is the drive formatted to ext4? I would copy everything off, reformat the drive using ext4
i am not getting the ''LABEL'' option while selecting ''identify as"" , any help please
You have to scroll all the way to the bottom
How to give read ,write permissions? It's read only.
is it NTFS? Did you use it in a windows machine prior?
I did this and it worked however I can't use my hd because the owner is the root. So I can create or edit files
Right click in the root folder of that drive. Select "open as root" Right click on the folder you want to take ownership of. Select "properties, then permissions. Make yourself the owner and give full access.
Didn't work, I get Erro setting owner: Operation not permitted. I tried by the terminal using chown and didn't work to
If the hd is in fat32 i think the change of owner will not work.
man so simple
wow, of course its this easy. everything on Mint is easy, i just didn't think, duh, Disks program for disks!
LOL Yep
Thank you so much!!!
You're welcome
thank you
You're welcome