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    9 months ago

    You don’t need to. It is handled automatically. When I plug in a drive it mounts automatically. If I want to unmount or mount partitions I just open up gnome disks and click the toggle mount button.

    Under the hood I believe it is just udev rules I think.

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      9 months ago

      You don’t need to. It is handled automatically.

      No it’s not, and you still need to identify what data is on what drive when swapping. I am not aware of a distro where a drive is auto-mounted with write privileges after you install it.

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          9 months ago

          What? Are you talking removable drives? Because there is no distro I’m aware of, that automatically mounts a newly installed disk.
          Also usually systems don’t grant write privileges for EXT4 or other security featured formats. But only for FAT32 and ExFAT and other “lesser” formats.
          So often you have to switch to root, and grant those privileges to your user account.