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I'm running Mint, and have an external USB drive plugged in. It is not powered - it gets its power from the mini-PC.
Occasionally I get this message and I've no idea why. It might be after rebooting the machine but I'm not sure (sorry).
The only thing I did with the drive is rename it (to "1tbDrive"). Could that be the problem? (I did that in the Disks application).
It's a file, you can edit it with vim or nano or whatever text editor you have. The instructions you gave have a section towards the bottom, right before the section on unmounting, but it seems incomplete. Try this:
Make a new directory
sudo mkdir /1tbdriveUse
blkidto get the UUID of the device.blkidEdit the fstab file.
sudo nano (or vim or whatever) /etc/fstabMake a new line at the bottom, in this format:
UUID=(the UUID you got from blkid) [TAB] /1tbdrive [TAB] (the format of the drive, e.g. ext4, btrfs, etc) [TAB] defaults 0 0The [TAB]s indicate pressing the tab button. After this is done, reboot your computer and you should have your drive mounted automatically.