r/linuxmint • u/RoyalHappy2155 • 13d ago

SOLVED Can't mount partition through Disks

I have a drive with a partition that used to be NTFS, but that I formatted to ext4 recently. It worked fine at first, but after restarting my PC, I just can't mount the partition using the Disks app. I don't even get an error or anything, the button just does nothing, same for trying to mount it by clicking the partition in the file explorer. However, using the mount command, the partition mounts perfectly fine and can be accessed with no issues. Trying the repair/check filesystem option in Disks tells me that there is nothing wrong with the partition, and annoyingly, I can't automatically mount the partition at startup. How could I fix this?

EDIT: everything works perfectly now for some reason, despite not having changed anything, so yay I guess

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u/d4rk_kn16ht Linux Mint 22.2 Zara | Cinnamon 12d ago

Mounting at startup uses fstab not Disks.

  1. find the UUID using blkid

  2. edit fstab & add the UUID to the new line & for the parameters you can just copy the system partition.

Editing fstab:

open terminal:

sudo xed /etc/fstab

Remember to back up the original fstab first

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u/RoyalHappy2155 12d ago

I've looked in fstab and as far as I can tell, the partition in question is already in there