new HDD installed, not set up quite the way I want it

[wfischer]

I installed a 2nd HDD yesterday, wiped my first HDD and did a fresh install of 10.04. When I open Dolphin, the 2nd HDD is shown on the left, but I have to click to mount it, and Dolphin asks for a password. In the settings for System Monitor, I see: (not available) /dev/sdb1. To fix this, do I just need to add that drive to /etc/fstab? Or is there a different way?

[vinnywright]

Re: new HDD installed, not set up quite the way I want it

I installed a 2nd HDD yesterday, wiped my first HDD and did a fresh install of 10.04. When I open Dolphin, the 2nd HDD is shown on the left, but I have to click to mount it, and Dolphin asks for a password.

that is the way it works.

In the settings for System Monitor, I see: (not available) /dev/sdb1. To fix this, do I just need to add that drive to /etc/fstab? Or is there a different way?

was the drive mounted (had you clicked it and interd your password) ?

&

yes if you want it mounted at boot it should be in /etc/fstab.

VINNY

[wfischer]

Re: new HDD installed, not set up quite the way I want it

yes, with the drive mounted I still see (not available) on the system monitor.

[dibl]

Re: new HDD installed, not set up quite the way I want it

#15 in the link in my signature has useful guidance on hard drive mounting questions.

One thing that folks typically don't understand is permissions, relative to the device versus their data. Devices (such as /dev/sdd) are owned by root, by default and for good reasons. (Of course the introduction of hot-pluggable USB storage devices has made this a tricky issue). Directories and data, on the other hand, can be owned by whomever root says should have access to them.

So, what you want to do with your new hard drive is:

(a) set it up to be automatically mounted at boot time, in /etc/fstab (actually you set up partitions to be mounted, not the whole drive, unless you have made it a single partition)
(b) as "sudo" make one or more directories (aka "folders) on it, with useful names like "photos", "music", "videos", or whatver
(c) as "sudo", change the permissions on the folders, and all subsidiary directories and data, to your user and his group.

That way your device will be handled properly at boot time, and when you pop open Dolphin as a user, your folders and files will be available as expected.