USE/Tutorials/automount_drive_at_boot.md

find the location of the drive using lsblk

• ex. /dev/sdb

make a new partition on the disk

• fdisk /dev/[location of hdd]
  • ex. fdisk /dev/sdb
• n to make a new partiton
  w to save changes

confirm that new partition was created

• lsblk
  • ex. /dev/sdb1

make a file system on the partiton

• mkfs -t ext4 /dev/[location of partition]
  • ex. mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1

make directory to mount HDD

• sudo mkdir /mnt/hdd

get uuid for drive to be mounted

• lsblk -fs

make a backup of /etc/fstab

• sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bk

add new harddrive to /etc/fstab

• sudo nano /etc/fstab
• add the line UUID=[drive UUID] [mount location] ext4 defaults,auto,rw 0 0
  • ex. UUID=4579acc6-e00d-433b-8087-0a75506e7a9c /mnt/hdd ext4 defaults,auto,rw 0 0

restart system to confirm that drive mounts at boot