Noob question: what's the deal with my connected drives not being accessible?

[Flygohr]

Thank you for taking the time to reply, I’m starting to get the picture here.

@Aragorn

Note that if you want to include the UUIDs in /etc/fstab, they have to be literally as in the output of the above command, because UNIX is case-sensitive.

Is the UUID part optional?

@Aragorn

You may also want to add nofail to the mount options, but note that the mount options must be separated by commas only, without spaces between them.

I think I want to include the nofail option to avoid messing up with my boot, right? Worst that can happen this way is that the drives don’t get mounted and I have to troubleshoot from there, yeah? Also one is an internal drive, the other two are external, and I’ve read in your other article that you also have to leave that option in case I unplug them one day.

@Aragorn

That way, the mountpoints are already owned by your user account and will have the proper permissions, although Microsoft-style filesystems need their permissions listed in the mount options, because they do not support POSIX permissions and file ownership.

Now this is the part that was also confusing me but the second article will surely help. Remembering this from your linked article:

@Aragorn

If you want to know what mount options exist for setting the compatibility options for non-POSIX filesystems, then please Read The Fine Manual™ (“RTFM” ) for the mount command.

man mount

I’ll figure it out, but if I may ask one favor, could you give me an example of a row with permissions listed in the mount options?