Sorry if this is not photography related and probably a basic question, but I just moved to Linux after a year or so of using a VM and I’m facing some issues as a new user.
I use an external HHD to store my pictures. When I plug it in, xubuntu detect it and it works fine, but if I boot with the drive already plugged and enter darktable I can’t access the pictures. If I go to the file manager and select the HHD, then go back to darktable, everything is fine again.
I’m not even sure what the problem is, but seems that I’m doing something wrong…
The file manager knows it’s there but it’s not mounted and ready to use until you click on it. darktable doesn’t know it’s there and isn’t able to mount it, so you have to mount it using the file manager first.
That’s one of my drives entry in /etc/fstab. This keeps the same drive mounted at the same mountpoint for me.
There may be easier ways to have this happen in xubuntu, but it’s the way I’m familiar with personally, so I’ll defer to what someone else may suggest.
My first attempt was with the Disk Utility, but I have a windows partition (for data) that does not show in the list and I couldn’t find why, so I went for the fstab:
I just follow a tutorial and didn’t explore each parameter, so maybe there are better options, but it’s working and I have other issues to work on, so for now this is ok.