USE/Tutorials/automount_drive_at_boot.md

1. Find the location of the drive using lsblk

• ex. /dev/sdb

2. Make a new partition on the disk

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

3. Confirm that the new partition was created

• lsblk
  • ex. /dev/sdb1

4. Make a file system on the new partiton

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

5. Make a directory to mount HDD to

• sudo mkdir /mnt/hdd

6. Get the UUID for the drive to be mounted

• lsblk -fs

7. Make a backup of /etc/fstab

• sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bk
• In case anything goes wrong you can restore this backup version
  • sudo cp /etc/fstab.bk /etc/fstab

8. Add the new harddrive to /etc/fstab so that it is automatically mounted when the system boots

1. sudo nano /etc/fstab
2. 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

9. Restart the system to confirm that drive mounts at boot