A little help with mounting drives

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Hi,

I have 5 drives in my computer

  1. NVME 500gb => Windows
  2. NVME 1TB => Stuff (ext4)
  3. 250GB SSD => EOS
  4. HDD 1TB => Stuff (ntfs)
  5. HDD 250GB => some “junk” files

When I installed EOS I didn’t had any partition on drive 2. I added it later and then I had to mount it so I can use it. There are few things I want to do but I don’t know how.

On this screenshoot you can see current config

Few questions about it…

  1. Under devices I have “Basic data partition” which is Windows drive and If I click on it I need to insert root password before I can use it. However, I don’t want to see that windows drive. How I can remove it?

  2. 1 TB HDD with ntfs partition which I have it for stuff I need under windows. When I click on it I need to insert root password before I can use it. Do I have to add it to fstab, so I don’t need to insert password?

  3. is this normal that I need to insert password for all drives with NTFS filesystem?

  4. Disk 5 is already mounted, probably because it was there when I installed EOS. How is that disk mounted because I can’t see it in fstab?

  5. I mounted disk 2 with fstab to one folder. Is there a way to list it under “devices” like other drives?

  6. In fstab (line 13) I mounted one drive, how important are those “options”? I didn’t quite understand them and it seems that it works fine.

Thank you for all help. Maybe some other questions will follow.

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I’m going to link to this first,

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fstab

rather than answering each question in turn; much of the information you are looking for is on that page.

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thanx, I’ll check it out. I was searching here for the solution.

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If you add the drives to fstab, they will automatically mount at boot and you won’t need to enter the root password to access them.

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I often add the nofail option, so that if I remove the disk from the system, things just work

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I managed to add all drives I needed but I still don’t know how to prevent some to even show up? Do I need to mount drive I don’t want with fstab and then somehow hide it?

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I want to remove this drive, so I don’t see it and it doesn’t ask me for password each time I restart my PC.

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/udisks#Hide_selected_partitions

Not sure if this is what you are looking for.

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you can use the noauto option - then if and when you need to access it you can mount the target location