Create a startup script to mount hard disk drives automatically

14 Feb 2019

If you are using a DIY distribution like Arch, this is a necessary thing to do after every reboot. So, it is better to wrap the steps up in a script and automate it using rc.d. Say, I have 3 partitions that I would like to mount to 3 directories.

Goto /media/ and create 3 directories called windows, disk3, storage.
```
cd /media/
sudo mkdir windows disk3 storage
```

Create a file named mounting with following content:

 ##startup script to mount the disk drives
 sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/windows
 sudo mount /dev/sda3 /media/disk3
 sudo mount /dev/sda5 /media/storage
 #EOF

Make the file executable: chmod +x mounting
Copy the file to /etc/init.d/: sudo cp mounting /etc/init.d/
Update your rc.d so that the script is executed at startup: sudo update-rc.d mounting defaults