Setting up a secondary drive

General system Newbie
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For example, for my home HDD I use the following entry in /etc/fstab:

UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx /home ext4 defaults,noatime 0 2

The first three columns are obvious, it’s UUID, mountpoint, filesystem.

To find out the UUID of the drive I prefer lsblk -f instead of bklid (the readout is more clear to me, idk).

Regarding mountpoint, some people prefer to mount stuff in /mnt and then symlink it, but I just mount it directly where it needs to go. Works fine.

The filesystem I use on all of my drives is ext4, it’s good enough for me. :man_shrugging: If you are not sure which filesystem is on your drive, the same command as above, lsblk -f will let you know.

For normal drives I always use defaults,noatime as options, for dump I always use 0 and for pass (fsck order) always 2 (root drive should have 1, swap and efi 0, everything else 2).

That’s pretty much all one needs to do to add a secondary drive.

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Internal drive issue
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There is a straight forward easy method

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It boots.

No longer shows up under devices, but the directory is there.

I assume it’s simply that.

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Sounds like it is working. Can you write data to it?

Does it show up in the output of mount or df -h

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Oh, yup. Precisely what I wanted. I guess I dragged it out pointlessly with my questions lol.

Thank you everyone! :slightly_smiling_face:

Can’t tag multiple replies as a solution so imma do Kresimirs since he did multiple edits to pretty much sum up the topic, in case anyone needs a reference in the future. But y’all were a big help!

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To further explain how I did it. I opened Gparted, unmounted the drive, I formatted it to ext4, I remounted it and it was ready. Either I did something terribly wrong but it worked anyway or I did it right.

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Do you use it to just store files/pictures ect… ?

I have a 500gig ssd not even being used, I’ve been wanting to set it up to use to store pictures on.

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Yes, I use it for storage only.

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Thanks

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I used Gparted as well, still won’t let me copy/paste. I right click on a photo on my desktop & go to paste it and can’t select paste cause its greyed out.

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Check in Gparted, is their a little lock icon next to the drive? If so unlock it with your root password and make sure its mounted.

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click on the drive in your file manager and select mount (after the first parts)

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You need to find out where it is mounted in the file system, that is it’s mount-point. Then you need to change the ownership of the mount-point from root to your user according to:

sudo chown $USER:$USER /path/to/mount/point.

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There a key next to sda1, its mounted in Gparted.

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is sda1 your main partition for the OS? If so, don’t mess with that. Try also what @pebcak said, although I didn’t have to do it:
sudo chown $USER:$USER /path/to/mount/point .

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I did a lsblk -f
/run/media/dad/xxxxxx-x

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No i have EOS Mate on my nvme

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Try:
sudo chown $USER:$USER /run/media/dad/xxxxxx-x

Or if you want that partiton to get mounted automatically at each boot, then do as above in this thread and create a convenient mount point and entry in /etc/fstab.

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chown: cannot access ‘/run/media/dad/xxxxxxxx-x’: No such file or directory

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Could you post the whole output of lsblk -fs? Have terminal open in fullscreen.

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