USB drives not showing

[pbolger]

since moving to Mint 18 I'm only seeing five entries in Nemo's My Computer section.

I've tried dragging and dropping etc but can't work out how to add folders to it.

Can anyone help?

[kyphi]

Re USB drives not showing - go to System Settings (in your main menu), Preferences, Desktop and turn "Mounted volumes" to ON.

Re adding or removing items in Nemo's My Computer section, go to Bookmarks (in Nemo) and use "Add Bookmark" and "Edit Bookmarks".

[pbolger]

Thanks.

The usb drive thing was, I think, a problem with the card reader hardware.

I see now that 'My Computer' is essentially a second folder of bookmarks. Is it possible to create new folders in this tree, or are you restricted to the two supplied?

[kyphi]

Using the Bookmark function you can add as many items as you need.

[pbolger]

I meant, can you add folders beyond 'My Computer' and 'Bookmarks'?

[Mattyboy]

You can mount a drive manually anywhere you have permissions to do so using the mount command if this is what you're after

Use

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lsblk

to identify the drive, represented here by sda and the partition number.

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sda              8:0    0 465.8G  0 disk  
├─sda2           8:2    0  99.5G  0 part  
├─sda3           8:3    0 365.8G  0 part  
└─sda1           8:1    0   500M  0 part  

Make a directory wherever you wish, in this case desktop, and call it USB for example. Then run

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sudo mount /dev/sda2 ~/Desktop/USB

You can then use the device in the same way you would any other directory providing you have permissions to do so for your current user account.

Use

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sudo umount

to unmount the same device /dev/ and destination path ~/Desktop/USB

You can also use fstab to automatically mount drives at boot but this isn't advisable when using removable media such as USB drives.

If this isn't what you're looking for you need to explain your requirement a little clearer

[Termy]

I meant, can you add folders beyond 'My Computer' and 'Bookmarks'?

Doubtful.

[kyphi]

The 3 main sub headings are

1. My Computer
2. Devices
3. Network

You can expand the entries under "My Computer" using "Bookmarks". "Home" is a permanent sub-heading.

"Devices" shows your partitions on storage media other than where your main operating system resides. If you have more than one hard drive or SSD their partitions will show up there and will mount if you click on them (same behaviour as inserting a USB stick).

A permanently mounted drive will show in Nemo under File System which makes that entry a permanent subheading similar to "Home".

Network will show other computers connected to your router/modem that you may link to.

PS - The above is how it is on my Desktop computer. It appears that my Laptop shows some variations. So, take it all as "broadly speaking" and with a grain of salt