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Yes pretty much. It just explicitly tells the system where to mount it, and for some filesystems you can even force the UID/GID and modes.
Usually
/mnt/whatever
for static mounts and/media/whatever
for removable mounts (those appear as drives in file managers, whereas /mnt doesn't). You can set theusers
option in fstab and it'll let users mount and unmount it without sudo as well, orauto
to always mount it on boot.From there usually you can make a shared group, chown the mount to root:thatgroup, then chmod
g+s
to make sure the group is inherited. And you should mostly be good to go.That's brilliant, thank you :)
Just to check, if I mount the drives under /media, will that still treat them as removable, or will they appear as permanent drives?
They'll appear removable but if you don't put
users
in the option it shouldn't be unmountable.I've got them up and running, and working for both users, thank you :)