Automount a disk at machine start up.

Automount a disk at machine start up.

Recently bought an additional hard disk of 1 TB for my home pc running Centos. After you plugin your disk to the machine, the system does not automounts it. It detects the new hardware and assigns it a dev id(deviceId)

To automount the disk at computer start up follow the following steps:

1. Find the UUID of the newly added disk. You can find it by running the following command

1. 
   [root@paragWS ~]# blkid
   
   /dev/sdb1: UUID="dffb1c9c-29e9-4a00-add1-ad08d90c9469" TYPE="xfs"
   
   /dev/sdb2: UUID="SJhaki-0CLf-GDmR-j8LW-e1pL-hcwP-sQVnZJ" TYPE="LVM2_member"
   
   /dev/mapper/centos-root: UUID="cb3625db-6ee0-431f-884e-022037e66e48" TYPE="xfs"
   
   /dev/sda: UUID="c3d18886-59cc-4aba-aff8-c1f5403af506" TYPE="ext3"
   

2. Create an entry in fstab which looks like this:

2. 
   [root@paragWS ~]# cat /etc/fstab
   
   
   
   
   #
   
   # /etc/fstab
   
   # Created by anaconda on Tue Dec  6 00:17:24 2015
   
   #
   
   # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
   
   # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
   
   #
   
   /dev/mapper/centos-root /                       xfs     defaults        0 0
   
   …
   
               …
   
   
   
   
               # /dev/sda SATA 1TB
   
                  UUID=c3d18886-59cc-4aba-aff8-c1f5403af506 /mnt/VideoData                   ext3     defaults        0 0
   
   
   
   

Default settings used above are equivalent to rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, async. Read more here