Auto mount & Permissions on a new hard drive

Question

I have added a new SATA hard drive to my Ubuntu machine and I would like to auto mount and change the permissions on the drive so I can write to it.

I have tried following one of the Ubuntu guides for help to auto mount but I'm not having any luck. Also the read and write permissions change should be easy in terminal but I can't find anything.

Can anyone help this newbie please?

Answer 1

This is what I use:

PySDM is a PyGTK-based Storage Device Manager that allows full customization of hard disk mount points without the need to edit fstab manually. It also allows the creation of udev rules for dynamic configuration of storage devices.

Search for it in the Software Centre... nice and easy GUI...

Once installed search for STORAGE DEVICE MANAGER in your apps list...

Answer 2

first do this sudo fdisk -l

you will get a list of drives like this

/dev/sda1 63 47182904 23591421 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 47183872 51183615 1999872 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 * 51183616 71184383 10000384 83 Linux /dev/sda4 71184384 156366847 42591232 b W95 FAT32

so to automount /dev/sda1

type this command first

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

it will open fstab with gedit

now add this line to it

/dev/sda1 /media/20gb ntfs defaults 0 0

Here, /dev/sda1 is your drive

/media/20gb is a directory where you want to mount your drive but you need to make this directory before

ntfs is type of file system of your drive

defaults 0 0 are permissions.

this is for automount and for prmissions i am also searching for it.