Can't mount my external harddrive

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i am unable to figure out how to do this. mount my external had drive again. i did it a while back with my old computer but can’t remeber how. if anyone could help i am lost… i know it worked once i mounted it. i just don’t know how…

[fj@whitewolf ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 3.73 TiB, 4096805658624 bytes, 8001573552 sectors
Disk model: T-FORCE TM8FFE004T
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: F9024728-391E-408D-971D-133600DF2D7E

[details=“Summary”]
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1 4096 4198399 4194304 2G EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 4198400 7858194072 7853995673 3.7T Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p3 7858194073 8001573485 143379413 68.4G Linux swap

Disk /dev/sda: 7.28 TiB, 8001562869760 bytes, 15628052480 sectors
Disk model: easystore 264D
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 8B78F5E9-E1D5-44EB-8128-0423E96C1D54

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 15628050431 15628048384 7.3T Microsoft basic data
[fj@whitewolf ~]$

[fj@whitewolf ~]$ l[fj@whitewolf ~]$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 7.3T 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 7.3T 0 part
nvme0n1 259:0 0 3.7T 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 2G 0 part /efi
│ /efi
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 3.7T 0 part /
└─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 68.4G 0 part [SWAP]
[fj@whitewolf ~]$

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Not sure if you mean this wiki
https://discovery.endeavouros.com/storage-and-partitions/how-to-permanently-mount-external-internal-drives-in-linux/2022/02/

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that certainly HELPS reading now super tired but i wanna get this done! THANK YOU

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i got it thankx to your awesome guide THANKX SO VERY MUCH PURPLE FRIEND!

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Well it is not my guide just a link to it to be honest :smiley:
But you are welcome anyway.

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Quick question @keescase: Haven’t played with all this systemd automounting lately—if setting a longer timeout (like 10min), will this setup allow the user to manually unmount the drive using his file manger (not being root)?

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Just tried that on Plasma (Dolphin) and you can unmount it manually but not without a password.
Don’t know about the timeout though never tried it.

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Thanks for checking! Maybe time for me to play with this a little. (Thought we could get rid of some mount/umount scripting on a friend’s laptop, who swaps music and backup drives quite often.)

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Not sure in this case auto mounting from the fstab might be a good thing at all you could risk a non bootable system I think, not sure about this.

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Guess I’ll have to test all this again. It’ll probably not work anyway, because his external music drive gets bind-mounted to his XDG Music folder (to preserve all the playlist/Strawberry/etc. paths). The actual drive’s umount would have to remove the bind mount first…

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Well I can only say good luck with it and as they say “be careful out there” :crossed_fingers:

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Sure :slight_smile: Nothing could be worse than corrupting the sacred music files (a 180k title extremely well-tagged FLAC library)! Took literally years ripping all his CDs.

Thanks again!

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