Linux Tip | How to Add a Hard Drive to a Linux System
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2017
- In this video we look at the process of adding a new hard drive to an existing Linux System.
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IMPORTANT UPDATE: Ubuntu 18.04 dropped the gksudo command. You can just use sudo in its place. Ex. sudo nemo :)
Is there a command like gksudo that can work to run apps in root mode via ALT-F2 shortcut? "sudo nemo" or anything sudo is not working.
Is there an altarnative for gksudo via ALT-F2?
Edit: using mint cinemon 19
Not that I know of. Use the terminal. Don't know why this was dropped.
May be too late but gksudo is now pkexec, but youll have to find a workaround If you want to use it with the xed command
Sorry for asking here but I figure you'll get notified easier on your comment, but can you do a video on using a SSD and an HDD for an install in the best way? Like root and boot on SSD and home on HDD or whatever is the best way to do it for speed of system and productivity.
I have a 120gb SSD id like to utilize along with my 2 tb HDD in my Linux mint system.
@@xenos17 i have come to a grinding hault with mine , mint 20 all i want to do is change the permissions on an external hard drive got to the gksudo in this video and 2 days later still no answer, been trauling the forums , nothing is simple , this looked so easy from the alt-f2 comand line , couple of clicks and your done, but now ?, going into terminal is not somthing i am comfortuble with just yet i am learning but very limited , is there no alternative, simple terminal solution would do. anybody please help. My mint instalations went flawlessly on my i5 HP desktop and my Dell Lat e5540. Anybody please help
Thanks Col in the UK
3 years old but an excellent video for a newcomer to Linux like me. You are an excellent communicator and teacher. Keep up the great work!
This video helped me a lot. I was trying to set my 1TB disk to mount on boot so then I could store my Steam library, without having to mount it manually each time I wanted to open Steam.
Thank you so much, this channel is awesome.
Your videos are long but you come out of them with deep understanding!!!!
Thanks so much Joe. I learned Computers back in dos 3.3 days....and well continually till a chain windows 10 crash. I just want to say your channel has helped me a lot with Switching to linux.
It is amazing that after three years of this video the information shared is still so useful. Well explained, discribed and summarized. Thank you for that.
Amazing, Joe. I was just struggling with this less than a month ago. Now I feel like I can go back in there and do it right.
This is a wonderful tutorial. I spent a couple of days banging my head with mounting/partitioning/and stuff and it just seemed like it was just so complicated - but now - the beauty is that Linux *IS* a mainframe O/S that allows you so much control over all kinds of devices all over the place - and Linux (UNIX) NEEDS to be exclusive and precise in how it addresses each peripheral source and what permissions are given to each external hard drive or virtual drive or whatever it is. This video made me aware of the real power and beauty of Linux. All of these trolls who complain about the complexity - thats ok they need to use a mac or windows 10 instead, but dont leave Joe a troll comment because he has done a wonderful job explaining all of this here, and his delivery is quite solid and pleasant. I will continue on my quest tomorrow to use a 3TB SATA along with a 240GB SSD system drive and I think I am way more enlightened on how to get it all going now thanks to this video. Running Linux Mint 19.1 KDE on AMD FX-8350 16GB RAM. Thanks Joe.
my tutorial best
Even after one year this is still very informative. Have used your info to create a disk for virtual machines. Thanks.
Thank you for your help, this tutorial was just the right mix between simplicity and practicality
very informative video. i've run into several occasions where i needed extra storage. very well explained and demonstrated. thank you.
Thank you for this, I'll try in my Manjaro, your videos are the best, with a lots of tips, it's a pleasure watch them
Thank you Joe. Very well done and very helpful. Clear and concise. Great video.
Thank you for building a repository of Linux wisdom. This was perfect!
Full of gems here. I thought that I knew a lot but I realize that I needed to know more.
So hard to do it with other tutorials and this was super easy. Thanks for the explanation
Liked and subscribed
it's 2020 and its still work, thank you this video helped me a lot.
thanks Joe helped me better understand how things work , I prefer to watch videos before trying something because when something is new to you it's easy to make a wrong move and trash things or spend hours trying to get it to work. I've been using ubuntu for 5years now currently 16.04 left win XP the family complained at first but they all use 16.04 , even the wife who wasn't great on computers has no problems.
amazing explanation, this helped me so much, solved all my problems. Thank you so much!
Perfect video. Thank you Joe.
You explain the whole things so well. It works so well. Thank you very much!
Nice video Joe, I learnt some stuff I didn't know so thanks 👍
Very nice Joe thanks for explaining this. Hopefully its gonna work for my 2nd HDD I want a Backup SW (deja dup or similar) to sync data to it on regular basis.
Oh, the mouse wheel does that. Didn't know. I usually do this:
Ctrl + drop = copy
Shift + drop = move
Ctrl + Shift + drop = create symlink
Where drop is when you drag and drop the file/folder somewhere.
Joe, another tip for the future, if you have a file/folder that needs to be in the / somewhere and you need to access it many times, I suggest creating a symlink as root and the file/folder will be usable at any time, being still yours and not root's. So the opposite of what you have done with data there. I don't know if this is common knowledge, but when I found out, it was awesome (for example I use it for my custom mdm theme on mint).
And I didn't know about the third option you presented.
Check your permissions with this symlink and you will know why you should not do it.
Thank you ! I needed this tutorial.
good stuff!! nice info keep it up doing this kind of video joe,
thank you bro. this was very helpful.
First, thanks for the video. I have put an SSD in my laptop and I am going to put the old HDD in the dvd tray. Do I need to make separate partitions on the HDD for music, photos, documents etc or should I just make folders for these things in, say, the first partition, the one you called music? What did you actually make the second partition for and do I need to make it ?
i found it easier to use the disks program that comes with linux mint for adding a physical hard drive to wherever you want to mount it
Thank you, this finally makes sense!!
I like to know your thoughts of swapping out hard drives? For those of us who can't completely abandoned windows, do you think use hard drive tray rack a good solution if you have 2nd drive?
Great vid. I've just re-purposed a 500gb HD from a PC running Ubuntu Mate. I've installed it in my main machine and it looks like I can re-format / partition etc without booting into a live CD / USB. Is there any problem doing it this way? I was just going to format it all in ext4 and mount it in fstab...
Thanks you helped me alot!
Great Videos
very much , subscribed...
Running lubuntu on my Toshiba cb30 Chromebook wanting to install sd card this way as a storage drive, after using live key and restarting in lubuntu can't get the root file manager to open try alt f2 and when ever I type in there I get nothing any advise or help?
Thanks.
Thanks for this video, it saved me!
Glad to hear it!
Is it possible/simpler for a beginner to just buy versions of Linux on live/install/persistent USB’s with 64gb of storage for storing any important data on them that you would want to keep secure? As if they are small bootable external storage drives?
Not just for noobs Joe. Some of us old fogies brains have turned to mush. Thanks for the refresh mah-tey, I mean mate.
Yup ... Sucks getting old. Nice to have a Channel like this to help give us a jolt ;)
But linux is so safe and secure according to everyone who uses it. Having this so easy to do would be more idiotic than the most idiotic t hing in windows ever (and I'm including Bob in that list).
Love your Videos keep it up
Great tutorial. I was getting tripped up on missing the "defaults" setting. /bookmarked!
thx for the video
thanks a lot Joe! that was really helpful.
can you please link to the command line version? I need to do this on remote machine using just ssh.
thanks again
Rami
the middle click did not work for me when linking the "data" folder. Shift+Ctrl worked well. Thank you for the video.
Linux Mint 19.2
Great video. I believe you can have 4 primary partitions on a msdos drive. on gpt you can have 128 partitions. - Just something small I noticed.
All of my 3 external HDDs are NTSF and they are full... and 1 of them is 8TB full of movies. I think this convinced me to leave my PC as windows. There is no way I can move them over to somewhere else to reformat it to something other than NTSF (I assume it's FAT32?). But I have enjoyed the wealth of information your videos have been to me. I had hoped there would be a way to meld the 2 somehow as I am in my movie storage daily.
Great video Joe! I am a simi-new-be to linux and I have watched a bunch of your videos and been wanting to get rid of windows 10 for a while. I have played with Linux on an off for years and have revisited Linux lately. I have tried several distro's in the last 2 months and landed on Linux Mint because of the ease of use. I have Mint on a 2 year old system and on a 10 year old system, I even converted my laptop. Lol
I do have a question? I Installed XBT and it is working great (Thank You)! Had to use it once to fix my system once already... Lol How would XBT treat the Data partition drive when backing up the system since it is a Link?
I am guessing the Music drive partition would be backed up as it is part of the /Home/User now....
I have Oracle VM loaded and followed you as you did this demo step for step and it worked with out a hitch!
I have a drive that I want to install and use it for my VM drives so that they are on a different hard drive...
Would CYA catch the Data folder on its backup?
Thanks for all you videos, you have been a wealth of knowledge for me to fall back on.... Keep up the great work!
You, sir, are a savior
Great stuff for nubes, thank you
Great video! For new users, could they use the Disks utility to mount the drive at startup? It should be easier. Just open Disks and select the new drive. Then go to the little gear drive icon (Additional partition options.) Select Edit Mount Options and then check Mount at startup.
Disks is a little flaky... Sometimes it doesn't work but that doesn't mean you can't try it. I stuck to the more manual way of doing it to show what was going on. :)
So we put the data folder into the file system to not show up on the desktop. But the Music partition appears. Can i assign the storage to the Music folder without making the drive show up on the desktop all the time like with the data folder?
Amazing thank you!
Wow! Lots to take in.
*gksudo nemo* is not 100% user graphic OK you said *almost* 100% at 0:20, so you're good ;)
100% = instead of gksudo caja; right click on the drive 'open as admin/root' then properties/permissions what you need
Just my graphic point of view, in all case thanks a lot, you are doing a GREAT job thumb up
it's times like these that I laugh at how something so basic, isn't obvious or simple to new users. It reminds me of trying to use a new distro I'm not yet fully familiar with. Especially if it's not debian based 🙃
i have a ubuntu booted in my hard disk which i was using in my old spare CPU(Dual Core)
after a years when i booted it for the first time i found that all the usb port are not detecting any device
(no mouse,no pendrive ,no light)
i have a keyboard with ( PS/2 port 6-pin mini-DIN) which is detectable, but no mouse the i can use
so i think if i somehow boot the window in HDD it should work
but I think the Motherboard may have a problem
pls can anybody help me ...
thank you
Thanks!
hey Joe, I followed you step by step using LM XFCE 18.3 with real hardware. I added a brand new second HDD to my Dell Latitude 630. While following you, a icon never appeared on my desktop. No big deal I access the 2nd hdd throu funar file mgr. After I rebooted and I right clicked, went to properties / permissions , the owner was back to root. Funny thing is I was still able to create folders, add music, pics ect. Clementine is able to access my music files and everything works great.I am curious about the owner being back to root. I can't change anything there. But like I said the drive other wise works great. Should I be concerned. I don't care about changing permissions anymore. The drive works great.I have rebooted 4 times and am able to access drive every time. What do you think?
"Dude, where's my cameo?!" -Percy the 🐱
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You don't need to boot into a live linux distro to do this stuff... If your sata controller supports hot swap/add then just plug your drive in and open up gparted (install it if you dont have it). If your sata controller does not support hot swap then just install the drive during the shutdown state, then start it up and process with gparted. While your argument that its easier to just use a live usb stick. I think it's just easier to do apt-get install gparted, it will come in handy multiple times in the future.
One thing you might want to bring up on having a multi-user shared data drive, is the "sticky bit" so that users cannot delete each other's files.
What if we have Linux already installed? Could another virtual hard drive be added?
thx so much
How do you add the virtual machine to the laptop?
Hi, Great video. but I have a question. why is the Music partition shows up as volume and the data as just a directory?
It's the magic of obfuscation... You can put anything anywhere... :)
i can't open my file manger ubuntu 18.04 is there command to find out what one my system is using? I have tried sudo Nautilus it says does not exist? I'm lost please help
Brilliant
Ok...I failed at step 1.
:/
I am running Linux Mint Cinnamon, and I don't see any "settings" or "storage" buttons...how do I get to what is shown at 1:54 in this video?
Had some trouble linking my data folder, found out the hotkey to link in cinnamon is draging while holding shift and control. Just in case someone had that same issue.
Verry good Joe !! I had a whish for you can you please make a video where you have ubuntu or linux mint a a partitition and Clonezilla life on a partintio and gparted on a partitiion on the same drive. When start up you shall have a startup menu wity 1. Ubuntu 2. clonezilla 3. gparted. I tryes for several mounds to do but I can't manage it.
Does this process allow the system to use the extra disk space for programs, please? When I installed Mint 19, I didn't give the system enough space to run virtual machines.
Programs in Linux go to predetermined locations. You can't move them or install them elsewhere. Might I I suggest back up your data and then re-install and partition properly. :)
I may not be very smart but here goes nothing.......I have an older compaq computer. It does have a sata harddrive, can I put an older style 2nd harddrive in it with an older style ribbon connector or can you do that. It is Linux Mint os and I really like it very much, I had just put 4 gigs of ram in it and it runs great. Any information you can give will be appreciated. Your videos have really helped alot, thank you very much.
i'm attached New HDD Direct to Motherboard,
how to rescan internal Hardware / i want to Use HDD without Reboot ??? in Linux
i'm tried lot of commands
finding this solution from two weeks
please help
Thanks...
No idea what file manager I have :/ Noone works for the alt f2 command. I'm on Zorin 16
i remember when I accidently typed rm -r /. rather than rm -r ./ in a chroot. RIp absolutely everything
Bailey Harrison
Idk what that would do but..
RIP
Bailey Harrison joke: what you don't backup?
A little pro-tip, a year after posting this video, you should immediately safe the file with the regular name after you have save under a different name for backing up, that way you can't accidentally overwrite the backup instead of overwriting the original file.
can this be applied to Ubuntu also?
Whats the keyboard shortcut if you want to split the file manager on this video
It's usually F3
In gnome-disks (Gui) you can 'mount on boot' with a click in a checkbox.
Disks is a little flaky, though. Sometimes it doesn't always work. :)
Just a heads up, it's Caja for ParrotSec. In case anyone else was trying to figure it out. P.S. thank you!
Forgot I had old data on the disk, any chance of getting them recovered? I stopped after the reformating.
No. You'd have to send it to a special data recovery company to get whatever is there back and then they might not be able to do it either... For all intents and purposes, it's gone.
thank god you told me to make a backup. i would have borked my entire os if it weren't for that little tid bit
I had my old Windows drive as a mounted volume for a time in my Linux system, to simply copy whatever I wanted from it. Trying to write to it was disappointing. Errors on errors. So, once I got my old data out of there it was time to re-partition and reformat it as an Ext4 drive. So, it all made sense. NTFS is totally screwed, like most Microsoft creations are. Sloppily put together crow's nests (as we say in our language, but you might get my meaning).
Good for you, Squidgy Testicle. I got problems a couple weeks after I started. So, any Linux user should be careful when using NTFS, just to avoid problems. It might work, but as well it might not. Better keep an eye on it.
I think it would be easier to install gparted than to boot into a live disk and use the version there. I'd only bother doing that if I needed to resize partitions on the disk the OS is installed on.
You're wrong.
TYSM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the best tutorial for adding a drive! I followed this years ago with a drive I labelled Music and it worked perfectly.
Now however I want a change but am lost. My main drive is getting full and I want to move over my Videos directory. I re-labelled the added drive Media. I only want one partition for more flexibility, so I created a new Music directory and moved my music into it. I then created a Videos folder and copied over my videos.
As there is only one partition how do I get both my Music and Videos folder to direct to the added drive as they both share the UID?
Ok, I found an answer: bind mount! I used Mr Collins method to mount the drive to a directory named Media. In the Media drive I have two directories; Music & Videos. I used bind mounts to link these directories to their namesakes on the main drive.
Ugh! The bind link is not permanent! After reboot it is lost. How to make it stick??
Ok, sorted!
In fstab I added:
/home/anarcho/Media/Music/ /home/anarcho/Music/ none bind 0 0
/home/anarcho/Media/Videos /home/anarcho/Videos none bind 0 0
You plug it in?
im new to linux mint and i have steam on a 120gb ssd and want to put my larger games on a 3tb usb hdd is this how id do that ?
USB drives always mount in the same place in the file system. No need to change anything about the system's fstab. :)
@@EzeeLinux i was able to mount but for some reason i dont get the option to install games on the usb hard drive through steam like to move the install folder ... i think im doing somthing wrong but it seems simple lol
Gday. Do you know if its possible to convert from NTFS to EXT3/EXT4
No. You can't do it in place. Copy everything off of the NTFS drive, reformat it with Ext4 and put the data back. :)
Will Linux read and write NTFS okay ? I was going to be an 250 gig M2 NVE to install Linux onto and look into getting 16 gig of RAM aswell .... New 4TB HDD will have to wait a few more weeks yet
Hey Joe. Do you think you could update this video for Linux Mint 19 / Cinnamon?
It works the same way. :)
Aha! _gksudo_ has been replaced with _pkexec_ in Mint 19. I.e., _pkexec nemo_
@@HungryGuyStories thankyou
Coming from WinXP . This confuses the hell out of me especially the virtual machine interaction with the "real" hard drive (or is it virtual real hard drive?) and then using it in the actual system??? This is going to be some learning curve. Not totally dumb here as I have written Perl code for my web site shopping cart and credit card processing. Using Bootit for this task currently on windblows.
This is a wonderful tutorial from Joe. However, on real hardware instead of a virtual pc adding a hard drive is actually very easy. Let's say a person has bought a desktop pc with only a 128 gb SSD and they want a bigger storage drive. Install say a 1 tb drive into the case connect up a sata and power cable. Turn on pc, start up Gparted,
create partition table mbr, create new partition ext 4, job done! Some Linux distros come with Gparted and Disks already installed. Because Gparted and Disks are powerful and potentially dangerous some distros don't have them included by default. As Joe says be very careful that you have selected the correct drive when using Gparted or the Disks utility.
Like many things Linux, got stuck at the very first step with a "command not found" error, and it is not fixable apparently since Ubuntu removed the gksu stuff. thanks for the tutorial, but IU guess I'll have to install windows if I want access to my own hard drives.
Just use 'sudo' instead... It will work just fine. :) There are lost of ways to do this... This just happens to be the way I showed how to do it.
Why does it show Music but not Data on the desktop?
Music is mounted within the home directory and the desktop automatically shows anything mount there. :)
Ah, okay, thanks. :) Your videos are really important in getting us newbies up to speed and confident to shift over to Linux. Thank you for putting in the time and effort!
How about ZFS on Linux? How do you set that up?
Well, It's not a one click option yet... When it is, I'll cover it. Right now it's a bit of a pain to get going. :)
I want my storage drive to be accessed by Windows and Linux.
So I have to use NTFS.
Or should I use FAT32?
Use ntfs but only if you can access the drive with Windows to fix it when it breaks itself.
@@EzeeLinux Thanks Bro. I appreciate the input.
I have Linux loaded on my machine, but I need to install Windows now to run SolidWorks.
Can I install Windows 10 after Linux has been installed first?
Cheers!
@@EvenStar303 I don't recommend dual booting with Windows. It will break sooner or later. Install Windows in a VM or get a separate machine... You'll be thankful you did. :)
@@EzeeLinux I have two separate drives in an Alenware 17R4. And I can chose my boot up drive in the BIOS manually by pressing F12 and then chosing second Hard drive. That should be the same as booting from a second machine with the added benefit of both OS seeing my Home directory on an NTFS partition.
Am I wrong about this?
@@EvenStarLoveAnanda You can't store /home in Linux on an NTFS system... It has to be native Linux like ext4, xfs or some other Linux native system. Plus, even though you can switch in the bois does not mean that one OS isn't going to see the boot loader for the other and try to set a priority. Dial boots are for nerds who understand EXACTLY how a computer stores info and boots. If that ain't you, don't bother with it.
for the new users it is gksu that you need to type in
suggested videos: can you do a top antivirus software please ?
can you please do a video on all of the different root folders to show what they are for please?
Linux doesn't really need A/V for home sue. I don't know a great deal about what's available. ClamAV is good for scanning stuff that comes from Windows to make sure it's clean. :)
gksudo command not found.
I don't see any storage in Zorin
Sadly Mint 19.1 Xfce Thunar doesn't give me the option of changing ownership - Time to read the man