How can I auto mount an external hard drive on startup/login?

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I have a dedicated external hard drive for backups and I have Borg & Timeshift set to automatically make backups throughout the week. I have to restart my computer a lot since I have Windows installed on another disk that I use for Adobe Suite stuff. I’m using a mini PC with only 2 SATA slots so I can’t add another internal disk dedicated for backups.

Since I have to restart a lot and log back into my EndeavourOS KDE Plasma install, I often forget to mount the external hard drive and then I have to make manual ones. How can I automate it?

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On Plasma you can set this up quite easily by going to System Settings-> Disks & Cameras-> Device Auto-Mount
I used to use it for my external drive

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