Automatically mount partition tool

This tool was developed mainly as a study of GNU Bash, since the OS already has mechanisms to do this.

Configuration

Automated configuration

In order to install the script, you just need to run the installer.sh file as superuser:

sudo ./installer.sh

Manual configuration

1. Create a ".service" file inside /etc/systemd/system/
   • sudo touch /etc/systemd/system/automatically_mount_partition.service
2. Add the service description to the file
   • sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/automatically_mount_partition.service

   • [Unit]
     Description=Automatically mounting HD partition from boot
     
     [Service]
     ExecStart=/path/to/your/script.sh
     Restart=always
     User=root
     
     [Install]
     WantedBy=default.target
     

3. Enable and add the script to the boot list

   • sudo systemctl enable wifi_reset.service
     sudo systemctl start wifi_reset.service
     

4. Check the service status
   • sudo systemctl status automatically_mount_partition.service
5. Reboot the machine and confirm that the partition is being mounted
   • reboot or shutdown now -r

GNU/Linux solution

The following are the steps to use the GNU/Linux built-in tool to automatically mount partitions:

1. Get the UUID (Universal Unique Identifier) of the device you want to be mounted on boot
   • blkid
2. Add an entry in /etc/fstab
   • sudo nano /etc/fstab
   • UUID=<partition_UUID> <mount_point> <filesystem_type> <options> <dump> <pass>
     • UUID: The Universally Unique Identifier of the partition. You can find this using the blkid command.
     • mount_point: The directory where the partition should be mounted.
     • filesystem_type: The type of filesystem on the partition (e.g., ext4, ntfs, etc.).
     • options: Mount options like defaults, noauto, etc.
     • dump and pass: Used by the dump and fsck utilities.
3. Save and exit
4. Test the configuration
   • sudo mount -a
5. Reboot
   • reboot or shutdown now -r