I’m running Mint, and have an external USB drive plugged in. It is not powered - it gets its power from the mini-PC.
Occasionally I get this message and I’ve no idea why. It might be after rebooting the machine but I’m not sure (sorry).
The only thing I did with the drive is rename it (to “1tbDrive”). Could that be the problem? (I did that in the Disks application).
Looks like Mint creates a mount point for your drive automatically, similarly to how it treats USB flash drives. If it’s something that’s always plugged in, you could make an entry into
/etc/fstab, just gotta make a directory for it first e.g.mkdir /1tbdrive.Thank you - that fstab directory doesn’t seem to exist in the etc directory. Or maybe I just cannot see it. I tried but permissions seem to be a problem, even though I’m signed in as the admin user and used sudo.
Do you know how I can create that directory? Is it these instructions https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-mount-and-unmount-drives-on-linux/ ?
It’s a file, you can edit it with vim or nano or whatever text editor you have. The instructions you gave have a section towards the bottom, right before the section on unmounting, but it seems incomplete. Try this:
Make a new directory
sudo mkdir /1tbdriveUse
blkidto get the UUID of the device.blkidEdit the fstab file.
sudo nano (or vim or whatever) /etc/fstabMake a new line at the bottom, in this format:
UUID=(the UUID you got from blkid) [TAB] /1tbdrive [TAB] (the format of the drive, e.g. ext4, btrfs, etc) [TAB] defaults 0 0The [TAB]s indicate pressing the tab button. After this is done, reboot your computer and you should have your drive mounted automatically.