hard drives

[Sigurdfs]

Hello,
I use 3 hard drives: one for Software, one for my files and one for backup files. The software drive is activated because there is the OS installed. But I always have to activate the access to the two other drives manually. In the system settings / removeable media I already tried any configuration. But I still have to start access to the other hard drives manually. What can I do that access will start automated.
Kind regards,
Sigurd

[Eadwine Rose]

Please share your Quick System Info, thanks.

[Sigurdfs]

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System:    Kernel: 6.0.0-6mx-amd64 [6.0.12-1~mx21+1] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.0.0-6mx-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.5 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 7 dm: SDDM 
           Distro: MX-21.3_KDE_x64 Wildflower January 15  2023 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: B550 Phantom Gaming 4 serial: <filter> 
           UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: P2.00 date: 06/22/2021 
Battery:   Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Marathon Mouse/Performance Plus M705 
           serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:       Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 family: 17 (23) 
           model-id: 71 (113) stepping: 0 microcode: 8701021 cache: L2: 3 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 86238 
           Speed: 2200 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2200 
           2: 2200 3: 2200 4: 2196 5: 2200 6: 2200 7: 2196 8: 2200 9: 2200 10: 2200 11: 2200 
           12: 2200 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
           Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds status: Not affected 
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
           Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected 
           Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT enabled with STIBP protection 
           Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: always-on, RSB 
           filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GP108 [GeForce GT 1030] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nouveau 
           v: kernel bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1d01 class-ID: 0300 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.14 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: modesetting 
           unloaded: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x2160 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x571mm (40.0x22.5") 
           s-diag: 1165mm (45.9") 
           Monitor-1: HDMI-1 res: 3840x2160 hz: 60 dpi: 140 size: 697x392mm (27.4x15.4") 
           diag: 800mm (31.5") 
           OpenGL: renderer: NV138 v: 4.3 Mesa 22.0.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: NVIDIA GP108 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 06:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fb8 class-ID: 0403 
           Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 08:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403 
           Device-3: C-Media CM106 Like Sound Device type: USB 
           driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-1:2 chip-ID: 0d8c:0102 
           class-ID: 0300 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.0.0-6mx-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASRock 
           driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 1.6 TiB used: 152.44 GiB (9.3%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:2 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLB256HAHQ-00000 
           size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 
           type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: EXD7201Q temp: 24.9 C scheme: GPT 
           ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000P1SSD8 size: 931.51 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD 
           serial: <filter> rev: P3CR021 temp: 26.9 C scheme: GPT 
           ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD5000AAKX-07U6AA0 
           size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD 
           rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: 1H17 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 230.22 GiB size: 225.54 GiB (97.97%) used: 12.55 GiB (5.6%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:4 
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 282 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:3 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:5 
Sensors:   Message: No sensor data found. Is lm-sensors configured? 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 2438 lib: 1387 flatpak: 0 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           2: deb http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/mx/repo/ bullseye ahs
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
Info:      Processes: 309 Uptime: 1m wakeups: 3 Memory: 31.28 GiB used: 1.91 GiB (6.1%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: N/A 
           alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: UEFI

[Huckleberry Finn]

"Disk Manager" from menu.

[Sigurdfs]

The Disk Manager is no solution. I want that with the start of MX Linux all three hard drives are available.

[Eadwine Rose]

Are those drives visible in Disk Manager?

[wdscharff]

Of course, you can do without the disk manager and make the corresponding entries in the fstab yourself, if that seems more convenient to you.

[entropyfoe]

Disk manager, yes !

My experience, is if they appear in the disk manager (as Eadwine Rose asked) you check the box.
If you reboot, the drives will be auto mounted. The disk manager is just a nice front end that does that fstab work for you.

If they appear, check the box for the drives you want mounted.

Try a reboot, I bet they will be there.

[~FLOW~]

May I suggest also gnome-disk-utility
I use it to auto-mount at startup, encrypted external disks.

[Sigurdfs]

Disk Utility does not change anything. Usually you can mark drives you want to be automatically mounted in the system settings. But nothing there works. I will attach a screenshot of these settings (in German).