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The elusive goal of Unix – or Linux – is simplicity (www.theregister.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/opensource

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (22 children)

And yet I have to jump through a thousand hoops before my drives will mount on boot.

[–] popcar2 9 points 2 days ago (21 children)

I was just adjusting my fstab today... Genuinely blows my mind how far Linux has come and I still have to delve into hard to read text files to open my damn drive when I boot my computer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

All fstab does is provide data for the mount command. Typically your OS just runs something like mount -a on boot and it mounts all the filesystems as listed in the fstab.

You can just run a mount command for your drive on startup as root. It would be doing essentially the same thing and its quite simple even for a new CLI user.

[–] popcar2 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I forgot about this, but AFAIK you're still better off with fstab to give yourself all permissions for everything to work properly.

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