Mounting all partitions on hard disk automatically on Linux Mint

You can do this through the file /etc/fstab. Take a look at this link. This tutorial also has good details.

Example steps

First you need to find out the UUID of the hard drives. You can use the command blkid for this. For example:

% sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: TYPE="ntfs" UUID="A0F0582EF0580CC2"
/dev/sda2: UUID="8c2da865-13f4-47a2-9c92-2f31738469e8" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda3: TYPE="swap" UUID="5641913f-9bcc-4d8a-8bcb-ddfc3159e70f"
/dev/sda5: UUID="FAB008D6B0089AF1" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="32c61b65-f2f8-4041-a5d5-3d5ef4182723" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb2: UUID="41c22818-fbad-4da6-8196-c816df0b7aa8" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" 

The output from the blkid command above can be used to identify the hard drive when adding entries to /etc/fstab.

Next you need to edit the /etc/fstab file. The lines in this file are organized as follows:

UUID={YOUR-UID}    {/path/to/mount/point}               {file-system-type}    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1

Now edit the file:

% sudo vi /etc/fstab

And add a file like this, for example:

UUID=41c22818-fbad-4da6-8196-c816df0b7aa8  /disk2p2      ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1

Save the file and then reprocess the file with the mount -a command.

Windows partitions

To mount an ntfs partition you'll need to do something like this in your /etc/fstab file:

/dev/sda2   /mnt/excess ntfs-3g    permissions,locale=en_US.utf8    0   2

You can do this by the simplest way. Go to:

• Menu -> Disks (app)
• Select the volume you want to mount, and click on its options
• Select "Edit Mount Options" -> And make sure you select "Mount at Startup" in the drive.