How to properly automount a drive in Ubuntu Linux

I’ve stolen this from TechRepublic, and am reproducing it here so I can find this info again when I need to.

The bit that I need to remember is:

Show attached drives:

sudo fdisk -l

Then, get the UUID. Some drives don’t have a long GUID-style UUID.

blkid

Then, create a mount point and edit /etc/fstab

Add an entry to the bottom of fstab like so:

UUID=1234-ABCD /media/sandisk auto user,umask=000,nosuid,nodev,nofail 0 0

Save and quit. Then use mount -a to test it’s working.

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