If my external drive is showing up in /home/user1/.private, would another user not be able to view this? See link for example -----> Example

user1@UB-DT2-SERVER:~$ df -lhT

Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda1     ext4    912G  3.9G  861G   1% /

udev      devtmpfs    3.0G  4.0K  3.0G   1% /dev

tmpfs        tmpfs    1.2G  1.4M  1.2G   1% /run

none         tmpfs    5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock

none         tmpfs    3.0G  116K  3.0G   1% /run/shm

/home/user1/.Private

      ecryptfs    912G  3.9G  861G   1% /home/user1

/dev/sr1       udf    615M  615M     0 100% /media/WD SmartWare

/dev/sdf1  fuseblk    466G  101M  466G   1% /media/MyPassport2

How can my external drive be mounted for all users to access?

Could it be automounted on boot?