Mounting permanently a Storage unit in Fedora KDE (automount at boot, no password, all users can see and edit files)

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Hi Isaac,

Ok, I am going to assume your want to use a UI tool (as stated earlier :slight_smile: )
Remember, this is an EXAMPLE and you should adjust/modify per your specific environment

You will need root or sudo access for all of this:

  1. Install your new drive and power up your machine (I am going to assume you know how to do everything this entails)
  2. Login to KDE
  3. open a terminal — at the command line – (you will need later and see why :slight_smile: )
    sudo mkdir /NEW-DRIVE
  4. open “KDE Partition Manager” and select your newly install drive
  5. In “Device” – create an new partition table — use GPT
  6. in “Partition” ->“New” — create a new partition — I usually use the entire drive –
    “Partition type:” Primary
    “File system:” ext4
    “Label”: NEW-DRIVE
    “Free space before:” 0.00 Mib
    “Size:” {the entire drive in MiB}
    “Free space after:” 0.00 MiB
    “Permissions” Only Root
  7. “Apply”
  8. Select your new partition from the right side window and then select “Partition”
  9. “Edit Mount Point”
    “Identify by:” Device Node — (keeping it simple for this example)
    “Path:” /NEW-DRIVE — (from step #3)
    “Options:” Don’t prevent the system from booting if not mountable
    <------> leave the rest at their default values <------->
  10. “OK” ---- at warning that the fstab is going to be modified, “Save changes”
  11. double-check your work — also look in /etc/fstab that there is and entry that looks like:
    /dev/sda1 /NEW-DRIVE ext4 nofail 0 0
    (NOTE: All white spaces are <SPACE>, NOT <TAB>)
  12. open a terminal —
    sudo systemctl daemon-reload
    sudo mount /NEW-DRIVE
    df -h and make certain /NEW-DRIVE is mounted and low to no used space
  13. reboot to verify further

DONE

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