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YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
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This article is more for a headless server. Any DE is going to present disks to you. And if some odd quirky drive doesn't, you go into the disks app and click the play icon on the drive you want to mount
I'll say it again "auto mount" if you have to click on it first it's not "auto" thats "access" mount.
Same with windows, first time you plug in it asks for drive letter, (which is mounting) if you hit ignore, that disk won't be mounted at reboot, but if you choose a letter it will
Never happens unless the drive is unformatted or a format windows can't read. And if it is unformatted you get a pop up telling you so and an offer to format it which after that point it mounts on boot everytime without any interaction needed at all from the user. If it is already formatted it just automatically assigns the next available drive letter and mounts it. Linux just does nothing until you dig around in context menus and even after you format it it still won't auto mount until you dig around through more menus or go through the ridiculous ftsab bullshit.
Not true, if you format a NTFS or fat in windows, then remove drive letter, it won't auto Mount, same I'd you format it in Linux to a windows format and add to your PC, it prompts for a drive letter.
As for Linux, your user session defaults determine if it automounts or not. Mine USD set to automount, so you can see in this screen the 80gig drive was auto mounted, but you can turn off USD and use specific mount options.
What desktop environment/distro are you using? It would be nice to be able to skip the fstab run around and just click a button.
Running Tubleweed with Gnome, and the App is Disks. The user session defaults are accessed via dconf editor and you can set your system wide default for auto mounting, or manually tweak each drive via disks.I
Yast Partitioner was other screenshots, also has options to do the same if you run KDE tumbledweed, or you could install Disks.