Secondary HDD Is Seen & Mounts, But...
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Secondary HDD Is Seen & Mounts, But...
My backup desktop machine has been settled in to having Mint 18.3 as its OS, and I'm experiencing an interesting phenomenon. It has a 500GB SSD as its boot drive, and a secondary 1TB HDD for data storage, and the SSD boots up perfectly well. Oddly enough, the BIOS & OS both sense the secondary HDD, and I can mount it just fine, but it's not allowing me to add folders for music, documents, etc. I'm using one of the articles on this site as guidance, but it's not allowing me to do so at all. Strange! Any ideas, y'all?
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Re: Secondary HDD Is Seen & Mounts, But...
Could be a permissions problem or (maybe) the HDD is being mounted read-only. What error(s) are you getting when you try to add files/folders; does location matter? What does
mount | grep /dev/sda
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Re: Secondary HDD Is Seen & Mounts, But...
If you mean entering that command into a terminal window, I got nothing when I pressed Enter after entering that command, as in it went to a new line and nothing else. Either that or, when I tried making certain I'd entered the command correctly, I was told there was no such thing.ajgringo619 wrote: ⤴Tue Sep 04, 2018 12:04 am Could be a permissions problem or (maybe) the HDD is being mounted read-only. What error(s) are you getting when you try to add files/folders; does location matter? What doesmount | grep /dev/sda
show?
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Re: Secondary HDD Is Seen & Mounts, But...
OK, sorry about that. I just assumed that the HDD would be /dev/sda. How did you mount it?
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Re: Secondary HDD Is Seen & Mounts, But...
Oh,wait a minute...I forgot to enter the actual number after sda! DUH.ajgringo619 wrote: ⤴Tue Sep 04, 2018 12:25 am OK, sorry about that. I just assumed that the HDD would be /dev/sda. How did you mount it?
Here's what I got:
on /media/maskedriderchris/5728665e - c96f - 4cel-bec1-57351deb2b72 type ext4 (rw, nosuid, nodev, relatime, data=ordered, uhelper=udisks2)
Makes no sense to me at all...?? Not sure how I mounted it, either; when I performed the install of 18.3, it was after a botched attempt at installing Mint 19.
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Re: Secondary HDD Is Seen & Mounts, But...
Let's start from the beginning - how exactly are you trying to add files/folders? Can you give me the output from these commands (using the terminal):
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df -h
ls -al /media/maskedriderchris
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Re: Secondary HDD Is Seen & Mounts, But...
I'm using the terminal window to try and add the files & folders.ajgringo619 wrote: ⤴Tue Sep 04, 2018 10:57 am Let's start from the beginning - how exactly are you trying to add files/folders? Can you give me the output from these commands (using the terminal):Code: Select all
df -h ls -al /media/maskedriderchris
For the commands, I got:
maskedriderchris@Karchev-001 ~ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev
tmpfs 1.6G 9.5M 1.6G 1% /run
/dev/sdb2 443G 6.2G 414G 2% /
tmpfs 7.9G 780K 7.9G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdb1 511M 3.5M 508M 1% /boot/efi
cgmfs 100K 0 100K 0% /run/cgmanager/fs
tmpfs 1.6G 24K 1.6G 1% /run/user/1000
maskedriderchris@Karchev-001 ~ $ ls -al /media/maskedriderchris
total 8
drwxr-x---+ 2 root root 4096 Sep 4 21:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 2 21:32 ..
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Re: Secondary HDD Is Seen & Mounts, But...
I don't see your HDD mounted. Your SSD is /dev/sdb, so my guess on your HDD being /dev/sda was correct. Since the drive isn't mounted (there would be an entry in theKamenRiderNecro wrote: ⤴Tue Sep 04, 2018 10:54 pm Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev
tmpfs 1.6G 9.5M 1.6G 1% /run
/dev/sdb2 443G 6.2G 414G 2% /
tmpfs 7.9G 780K 7.9G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdb1 511M 3.5M 508M 1% /boot/efi
cgmfs 100K 0 100K 0% /run/cgmanager/fs
tmpfs 1.6G 24K 1.6G 1% /run/user/1000
maskedriderchris@Karchev-001 ~ $ ls -al /media/maskedriderchris
total 8
drwxr-x---+ 2 root root 4096 Sep 4 21:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 2 21:32 ..
df -h
results and ls -al /media/maskedriderchris
would show another folder), you're trying to add files/folders to a folder that you don't have write access to (the ls -al /media/maskedriderchris
confirms that).Try this:
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sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt