Hi everyone,
i’d like to make a partition to be mounted automatically at startup. Right-now i have to mount it manually by clicking on it on dolphin and type admin psw.
I know fstab exists, but i wanted to see how i could set it up via GUI.
I checked the said “auto-mount” in kde system settings but no device is shown, not even when i plug a usb stick (i though maybe it was only for usb devices and not block devices).
Thanks in advance
Have you tried System Settings?
Yes, It’s what i was referring to in the post, i’ll correct it
I’m pretty sure this can be done through KDE Partition Manager by right-clicking and selecting “Edit mount point”. It’s been a while since I’ve done this though; I’ve just populated fstab with the relevant UUIDs.
I believe you can add nofail to the parameters for devices which won’t necessarily always be present.
Dolphin is a file manager, not device manager.
Hence, you should not be trying to set auto-mounting for a partition there.
I believe you were looking at Device Auto-Mount in System Settings.
Again, as the name implied, it is used for device, and your purpose is to set auto-mounting of partition.
Since you only want a GUI only solution, there are multiple options:
KDE Partition Manager
> select your target Disk
> right click the partition of your choice
> un-check “No automatic mount”
> click OK
> reboot.
Gnome Disks
> select your target Disk
> select the partition of your choice
> click the small button “Additional partition options”
> click Edit Mount Option
> check “Mount at system startup”
> click OK
> reboot.
Since you talked about KDE partition manager i got into Gparted which i installed after OS installation a while ago. I’ve checked flags and no_automount was already off.
Is this equivalent and correct or i do need to download KDE part manager?
I wanted not to use fstab first to try stay away from editing files manually and using terminal, secondwise i wanted not to search for half an hour understand the correct flags and options to put in a manually written fstab entry.
Last time i dual booted i edited the file manually now i’d like to see if GUI can handle the work
Gparted implemented this no_automount flag in 2022.
Theoretically, it should work as you intended.
But since I have no prior experience with this flag, I can’t say for sure.
And if you were to install new partition package, I would recommend Gnome Disks over KDE Partition Manager.
