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• drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I just plugged in an old drive to make sure I’m not going crazy, and I didn’t do anything besides hit the power button, log in, and open the file explorer:

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  And its right there.

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  • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That behavior is controlled in the gnome user session defaults

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  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It depends on the DE.

    Even still, typing mount /dev/sda1 external isn’t exactly Cirque du Soleil

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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    articles like this wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t true, they will appear but they wont auto mount techhut.tv/auto-mount-drives-in-linux-fstab/

    *some distros may auto mount but I never used one that did

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    • glog78@digitalcourage.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      @the_riviera_kid @drosophila

      As always on Linux you have different possibilities. Most big Desktop Environment's like KDE / GNOME / Cinnamon .... can mount devices automatically or on a click on the device. No need for additional entries in fstab.

      If you however want a more general approach you can use systemd's automount or a fixed mountpount using fstab.

      Most normal Desktop User's will be totally fine with the DE Solutions.

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      • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I use my secondary and tertiary drives for steam and I boot my machine to big picture mode on startup so I need them to auto mount. Having to navigate to the file manager and clicking on them is not the same.

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    • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I just click on it and it mounts and opens

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      This is Linux Mint btw

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      • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Sure, but you had to click on it first. It didn’t mount on boot.

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• BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What are you running? Mine just shows up, I double click it and supply the encryption password and it’s mounted. (Which could be skipped if it wasn’t encrypted)

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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So many people do not understand the “auto” part of auto mount, clicking on it first is not auto mount. Auto mount means its mounted on boot not after you click on it.

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    • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can set it to do that. Same as you do in windows when you assign a drive letter, it then will automount that drive. You can do that in Linux in the disks tool

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      • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Depending on your desktop environment you can, on linux as a whole no you can’t.

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    • EnsignWashout@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So you’re complaining that you have to click on it - once every two years - when you reboot…

      That’s rough, buddy.

      I joke. But also, I guess if you feel that strongly about wasting my a click, Linux is definitely the OS for you.

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      • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Where do you get once every 2 years? Do you never reboot your machine? It’s once every boot. Everytime the machine starts you have to go to file manager and click on it before it mounts unless you modify fstab.

        At this point you must be missing the point on purpose.

        Just go ahead and google mount drive on boot in linux and you can see the 1,000s of post from people having the exact issue I describe. I’ll even do it for you.

        www.google.com/search?q=mount+drive+on+boot+in+li…

        Then go ahead and google the same thing for windows and you’ll see what a non issue it is in windows because even google will assume that surely you meant linux.

        www.google.com/search?q=mount+drive+on+boot+in+wi…

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• blue_canuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Say what? That’s not true in the slightest, if the drive is mountable it will show up in your file manager.

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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    articles like this wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t true, they will appear but they wont auto mount techhut.tv/auto-mount-drives-in-linux-fstab/

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    • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This article is more for a headless server. Any DE is going to present disks to you. And if some odd quirky drive doesn’t, you go into the disks app and click the play icon on the drive you want to mount

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      • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’ll say it again “auto mount” if you have to click on it first it’s not “auto” thats “access” mount.

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    • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I think people are confused because the difference between mount on access and mount on boot is meaningless for 98% of people. I can think of reasons to need the latter, but not many.

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      • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You are probably right, most folks aren’t even aware because they have no need for it. The only reason I need it is for my gaming rig that launches big picture mode on startup. I have no need for it on any of my desktop machines.

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• the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah, but again you don’t have to do all this stuff just to use the PC. And for having the tiny user base Linux does it’s amazingly pro-user compared to the monopolistic bullshittery that is Microsoft Windows.

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