I’ve stolen this from TechRepublic, and am reproducing it here so I can find this info again when I need to.
The original article is: How to properly automount a drive in Ubuntu Linux.
The bit that I need to remember is:
Show attached drives:
sudo fdisk -l
Then, get the UUID. Some drives don’t have a long GUID-style UUID.
blkid
Then, create a mount point and edit /etc/fstab
Add an entry to the bottom of fstab like so:
UUID=1234-ABCD /media/sandisk auto user,umask=000,nosuid,nodev,nofail 0 0
Save and quit. Then use mount -a to test it’s working.