Bear with me, I only just made the move from Windows. I have two partitions on my drive, one small with all the OS files and such, and one large to be used for storage and installing games and such. I’ve made sure to take ownership of this partition and all that to make I don’t need root access to it. I set this up yesterday, and today I found that Steam did not find the storage partition. I had to go into the Steam settings to point out the drive. Can I change things so I don’t have to do that every time I boot up my PC?
My understanding is that automount is different from what you’ll need. The automount that you’re using is probably mounting when you log in, but you’ll probably want to mount when you turn on the computer.
For that, you’ll want to edit fstab. That’s a file that tells the system that you need to mount this drive during boot-up. On KDE, there’s a partition manager software that can edit fstab through a GUI, but I’m not sure if there’s something similar in Mint. If not, the file is in /etc/fstab. Make sure to double check for typos when you edit fstab because errors can prevent your computer from booting up properly. Or just be proficient at terminal so that you can undo the changes when you make an error.
Word of advice: use the nofail option for secondary/storage drives
I use x-systemd.automount for storage drives. You don’t need nofail with it. Systemd always mounts a tempfs until the directory is accessed so the fail won’t happen until you try to access the directory.