Personally, I have all my mountpoints owned by root (and I use nouser as part of defaults). Then I change ownership of individual files and directories on the drive to whatever user that ought to access them (usually to my normal user account).
But it’s a matter of preference and/or paranoia: I simply don’t like mountpoints owned by anyone except root. So, I wouldn’t do this chown $USER:$USER stuff, personally…
GUI guy here, just use Disks or referred to as gnome-disks-utility (I am a KDE user) and you basically find the 2nd disk, flip the switch to auto-mount at startup and it does all the fstab stuff for you. I never have an issue.
I have had issues doing this on my own (my fault probably) via CLI, which is why, I use the above method.
ROFL…not the first to tell me that. And my usual response, EOS provides all the GUI utilities you need to never touch CLI. Are you sure EOS is a CLI-centric distro, and not really GUI-centric instead?
Gparted does the same thing. I’m on KDE but I prefer Gparted. It’s simple doing it that way, no need for complicated commands, but the commands help us learn about how things work.
I find the terminology and implementation kind of confusing, especially for new users. You have at least one EOS dev in particular that stands by the misleading (to me) tagline EOS is CLI-centric, when the EOS team offers up every GUI tool, such as kernel install, the welcome GUI with all its options, etc. Like I said, you don’t need CLI to install most anything, but the tagline sounds bad-_ss, I guess.
I interpret it as it doesn’t have a Control Panel type of deal kind of like what MX Linux, Mint or Manjaro provide. It’s just a few small tools that you can easily remove.
Coming from those types of distros, there’s a massive difference. I’m getting somewhat intimate with the terminal.
