Mount a new internal Hard drive how to ???

[greenducky]

Hello i just purchased a new Internal 320Gb Hard Drive.

What i want is space to save all of my media files. mainly music. but i do not know how to do this.

How do you mount the new hard drive and have read and write access to it.

All i have done is open my computer installed the new Hard drive via SATA connection. closed the cover and turned on
the computer. nothing appears on the desktop or in the places menu.

When i open Gparted i can find it as unallocated space. but thats it. what else do i do.

THanks MINT users

[Husse]

You could partition the drive so you have separate areas for the different kind of content you have - or leave it in one bit.
Then you need to format it - my recommendation is as ext3
Then you need to mount it so that it appears automatically
Edit /etc/fstab and add a line like so

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/dev/sdb1    /media/sdb1   ext3    defaults        0       2

This is if you make it in one partition - you have to add one line per partition
Then you need to make a folder (one for each partition)

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sudo mkdir /media/sdb1

Now you have a working disk

[McLovin]

You could partition the drive so you have separate areas for the different kind of content you have - or leave it in one bit.
Then you need to format it - my recommendation is as ext3
Then you need to mount it so that it appears automatically
Edit /etc/fstab and add a line like so

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/dev/sdb1    /media/sdb1   ext3    defaults        0       2

This is if you make it in one partition - you have to add one line per partition
Then you need to make a folder (one for each partition)

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sudo mkdir /media/sdb1

Now you have a working disk

This is good advice, but before you format it to any file system, is Mint/Linux the only type of OS you are using, or are you using Windows as well? And if you are using Windows as well, do you want to be able to access the files from Windows? If so, then you may want to to format using Fat32, in multiple partitions, as fat32 has issues with large partitions.

[Husse]

McLovin has a valid point
But unless you use win9x I always recommend NTFS as the cluster size in FAT32 gets really big
A file of a few hundred bytes does not use any extra space in NTFS (it "hides" in MFT) while it may use 32 kilobytes in FAT32

[greenducky]

Thanks guys for the response, but i plan on only using linux mint as my only os. no others need to be installed.

I would just like a drive that is accessible from my dekstop that is strictly for media.