I like to have all my partitions automatically mounted whenever I log into my system.
There are many ways to do that, this is just the way I prefer.
You need to have
gnome-disk-utilityinstalled for this.
gnome-disk-utility) and choose the partition you want to auto-mount.nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show), add:uid=1000,gid=1000