[RESOLVED] How to mount a hard drive?

[greenster]

How can I mount/connect a hard drive automatically?

I always have to connect the HDD manually after restarting.

I have two hard drives on my PC. One SDD where Kubuntu and Windows 11 are installed.

And a second HDD, formatted as NTFS.

How do I format the hard drive so that it can be mounted properly with Kubuntu, ext4?

[claydoh]

Search for "mount" in System Settings to locate the Device Auto-mount section.

Any existing internal or external drive you have mounted via Dolphin should be there, if not all connected drives that are not in your system's fstab file.

You can set a few options for specific devices, both those currently connected and ones you have mounted before.

The tray widget also has some options on what it shows, which can be handy, as well.
/media/<username>/something


Now, if you needed something to mount during boot *before* a user login, then you would need to edit your /etc/fstab. There are hundreds of tutorials on this out there. For most situations, imo, it isn't necessary.

Now, to format a drive or disk, you can use KDE Partition Manager, which is included by default, or GParted.

You can find it in your menu, or from the tray icon:



It is pretty straightforward:

The partition needs to be unmounted nefore you can do anything other than editing a label, and it stacks actions then performs them when you click "apply"



The actual location that KDE will use as the mouint point will be /media/<username>/something. Adding a label replaces the long UUID number or other text with whatever you like it to be, which is what you will see in Dolphin and the tray widget..

[oshunluvr]

Also, KDE Partition Manager can create a mount point and edit fstab for you if you wish to mount the device that way. IMO, having a fixed device in fstab is much better (and is the standard) because you can fine tune the file system options easily and have more control over access..

/media/<username>/ is intended for removable devices and the permissions are different and nor easily in your control. However, it seems the newer Linux users tend to lean that way because it's less work.

[greenster]

claydoh Thank you very much for this tip. It worked.