Hey everyone! I've just installed a new 1TB internal drive on my Linux Mint laptop. Initially, I had to mount it manually like a USB drive each time, so I found out I needed to edit the fstab file to have it mount automatically. Now that's working, but the drive still behaves like a removable drive. I'm wondering if there's a way to change that so it acts like a normal hard drive. Here's the current configuration of my /etc/fstab file:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
UUID=1bf36f0a-9f2a-4051-bd47-ec6b3c0eb15a / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
UUID="f0cbcf5f-ac02-43fa-8eb1-60149a6bc625" /media/OneTB ext4 defaults 0 2
UUID=66F5-3851 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0
3 Answers
If you're looking for even more customization, think about what you actually want the drive to do. It's a matter of preference—do you want to mount it differently, or are you considering merging it with other drives? Keeping separate mount points is usually safer, so if one drive fails, it won't take down everything. But if you want to manage multiple drives as a single entity, Linux can definitely handle that too.
It sounds like your drive is mounted under /media/OneTB, which is typically used for removable drives, like USB sticks. To fix this, you can change the mount point to /mnt/OneTB instead. Just create the directory with `sudo mkdir /mnt/OneTB`, then update your fstab to reflect this. After that, run `sudo mount -a` or reboot your system. This should help it behave like a standard internal drive!
Every drive in Linux is part of the same file system structure starting from the root directory. Just because it's mounted in /media doesn't mean it's a removable drive; that's just a location in the file hierarchy. If you want it to appear more like a regular hard drive, just choose a different mount point that's more suited to internal drives. However, remember that changing the mount point won't change how the drive fundamentally operates.

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