Mount external hd permanently on raspberry pi

The best tutorial to use for mounting an external Hard Drive permanently on your rspberry pi is on raspberrypi.org documentation

List all the disk partitions

sudo lsblk -o UUID,NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,MODEL

Identify the name of the disk partition (eg. sda1)
Install the relevant storage driver for your FSTYPE (eg. exfat-fuse or ntfs-3g) – usually already install on ubuntu server
Get the location of the disk partition
```
sudo blkid
```
Create a folder to mount the device
```
sudo mkdir /mnt/mydisk
```
Mount the device to that folder
```
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/mydisk
```
Verify it is mounted
```
ls /mnt/mydisk
```
Get the UUID of the device
```
sudo blkid
```

Edit fstab – filesystem table

sudo vim /etc/fstab

UUID=5C24-1453 /mnt/mydisk fstype defaults,auto,users,rw,nofail 0 0

replace fstype with the filesystem type. Add ,umask=000 after nofail if the silesystem is FAT or NTFS