Comment: Or, rediscovering the KISS principle, the long way round
    • popcar2@programming.dev
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • unhrpetby@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.

        • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          And there’s the typical non-answer I usually get, a helpful answer would read something like;

          To auto mount drives on Bazzite open terminal and type

          sudo rpm-ostree install gnome-disk-utility

          Wait for-ev-er…

          Reboot

          open “disks”

          select your disk you want to auto mount

          you’ll see an icon that looks like a window with a play symbol in it that is “Additionaal Partition Options”

          click on it and select “Edit Mount Options”

          you may or may not have to toggle user session defaults

          check the box that says mount on startup

          enter your password if asked and reboot to verify.

          And those are admittedly terrible instructions but at least they actually answer the question instead of “just use fstab” like a new linux user would have any idea what that is or what to do with it.

          • unhrpetby@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            2 months ago

            And there’s the typical non-answer…

            There wasn’t any question asked in the thread I replied to.

            “just use fstab”

            What I actually said was:

            You can just run a mount command for your drive on startup as root.

            Which is significant because its less verbose than the fstab

            a helpful answer would read something like; To auto mount drives on Bazzite open terminal and type…

            Its not a given that someone would know how to automount disks in X desktop environment. One can’t provide a step-by-step process on something they do not know.

  • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Everything is a file. Your past, your present, hopes and dreams, loved ones: it’s all a file. That’s the true goal of Linux.