Auto mounting second internal hard drive?

@leepenny

You've gotten some good advice - here's some more repackaged.

a) if you're going to make this 500 GB a permanent addition temp move files off of it and partition it as EXT4 + mount by uuid. This is the best way forward.

b) rest of details you need to know:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Instal...wHardDrive

use a bootCD and 'gparted' if you can to make partition in this case - gparted has an easy-to-use GUI.

after that in CLI:

sudo tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sdYX
--> shrinks reserved space

sudo ls -lG /dev/disk/by-uuid/
--> this list all devices by uuid - needed for fstab

then modify fstab for 500 GB drive
#500 GB drive
UUID=<copy,paste> /home/<user>/<mountpoint> ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1

sudo chown -Rv X:X /xxx
--> where X:X is username /home/<user>/<mountpoint> is mount point - sets permissions

other info:

sudo mount -a
--> reruns fstab

mount
--> simply shows you what is currently mounted

I don't know what you know or don't know, but hope this helps either way.

Dudes when I mount my 3rd HDD it gives me a error message on the XBMC splash screen saying it failed to mount every time I reboot.. any suggestions?

Distribution?

oh god this pysdm is kicking my ass now it wont read ANY of my HDDs!!

EDIT: this is getting annoying everytime I lose my mount I have to rescan my WHOLE Library.. I dunno what to do anymore can anybody please help me.. All I want is to auto mount 3 HDDs in my HP Proliant N40L server... Everything went well untill I installed this PYSDM and automounted my hdds through there.. There is always one or more HDDs that dont want to auto mount... Why is everything in Linux so freaking KRYPTIC!!!

q1) Is your main / OS HDD mounting correctly?

What does 'mount' in the terminal say?

q2) All you need to mount extra drives is:

Find their UUID via 'ls -lG /dev/disk/by-uuid/'

Add that info to /etc/fstab

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Instal...wHardDrive FIXED.

I checked out this FSTAB thing and I dont know where to add it or how to add it is it a terminal thing or what The thing that irritates me as well at first PYSDM mounted all 3 drives... then just 2 of the 3 then 1 of the three THEN NONE!!!

Just point me to a video tut of how fstab works or what not and ill be a happy chappy

Plus that link you gave me didnt do anything btw...