Is it possible to make a hard drive auto-mount itself when you open your computer?

[wise arrow]

My storage hard drive needs to be mounted everytime I open up my pc is there a way to make it happen automatically?

[surreal spindle]

yes

you can use disk tools comes with distro or edit fstab file

[radiant glade]

this is my ventoy usb stick but the same applies to any HDD/SSD/anything
follow the images
or edit your /etc/fstab, beware that it would require sudo privileges. it usually is self documented, the first couple lines have a few comments that explain everything, and if its not enough, use man fstab

the app is the Disks app in mint, or on other distros where its not installed by default install the gnome-disk-utility package with your distros package manager

[radiant glade]

*both options require sudo privileges because the first one is just a frontend for the 2nd one

[true viper]

use disks app cuz it makes a nofail option

^very important for externa/detachable drives

[wise arrow]

@radiant glade for the part where I put in my mount point am I supposed to set the mount point to the OSdrive or to the steam file I want it to connect to?

[radiant glade]

the directory which will be the prefix of all the files in that drive

[true viper]

/mnt/label

lsblk -o name,label,size,fstype