I would like to automount a directory on boot automatically... how would I go about that? I assume I need to write a script.. but how to get that to automatically run?

Basically I want to auto mount my windows partition. It works fine, and I can access it as long as I click the "drive" in file manager to mount it... but I need it to automout.

I found a solution for mounting a drive....

use these two commands...
fdisk will display your drives and blkid will show you the drive UUID

Then type
And then at the very bottom add this line...
but replace the UUID and the mount point directory to w/e you wish.

This is the exact lines I added to the bottom of my file.
NEW QUESTION :

How can I automount a directory, rather than an entire drive?

you should be able to do that by adding an entry for your windows partition to your fstab (in /etc).

To elaborate on cordx's post you can not just mount a single directory on a filesystem but you can use a bind mount to provide an alternative view to the existing directory tree.

If you mount your windows drive to say /mnt/WindowsData you can then create another mount point to the desired directory within the drive.

/etc/fstab entery would look like.

/mnt/WindowsData/subdirectory /home/itsisme/subdirectory none defaults,bind 0 0

There is also a fuse filesystem bindfs that can do the same thing without having to have a fstab entry.

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how do you mean? once the partition is mounted, your os should have access to all of the directories located therein.

perfect! Thanks!