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By editing /etc/fstab I can define how a particular external drive gets mounted on a particular computer. However, suppose that I plugin the drive in a different computer - is there a way of defining the properties of how a drive gets mounted on any system at the drive level (i.e. it gets carried within the drive, not a particular OS's configuration)?

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  • I suspect that differences in distributions will fight against you. Depending on the kind of Linux, even if the system were using disk labels as a key for the mountpoint, some linuxs would put it at /mnt/DISKLABEL and others at /media/DISKLABEL, others just /mnt/sdc1 regardless, so you'd never get a consistant path everywhere. Don't know what your ultimate goal is, but if you want to your software find your disk after mounting, consider finding it by UUID
    – infixed
    Commented Nov 4, 2016 at 21:33
  • Some filesystems (namely: ZFS) are somewhat like this, but most aren’t.
    – Daniel B
    Commented Nov 4, 2016 at 22:28

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This is not possible. As stated by infixed you can still find you external drive device file using symlinks from /dev/disk/by-uuid/ or /dev/disk/by-partuuid/ and associated mountpoint from there using lsblk if you want (not always installed).

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