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Adding a second hard drive to your HDA (view source)
Revision as of 03:54, 18 December 2013
, 03:54, 18 December 2013→Manually setting up the disk mount order
Ubuntu:
gstreet@gstreet-MicroServer:~$ sudo blkid
[sudo] password for gstreet:
/dev/sde3: LABEL="home" UUID="d0531fa1-9311-4d53-b838-f35898adbd98" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sde5: LABEL="swap" UUID="3c39206c-ba60-47ff-a1fe-f5821b2ab543" TYPE="swap"
In this case, the user has four data drives (sda1, sdb1, sdc1, sdd1) and the Operating system assigned to a fifth drive, sde.
2. Then edit /etc/fstab to mount each drive - for novices, easiest to do this using a graphical editor. You might consider first making a copy called fstab.bak (use the "save as" command, close file and then gedit the original fstab again) so that you can recover the original fstab file if you make mistakes.
Ubuntu: {{Code|Code<div style="border: 1px solid #A3B1BF; padding: .5em 1em; color: #000; background-color: #E6F2FF; margin: 3px 3px 1em 3px;"> sudo gedit /etc/fstab}}</div>
3. Then '''very carefully''' add the following line for each disk into the end of the fstab file. Make sure you paste in the right UUID, drive number and drive file system (ext4 in this case).
Save the file and quit the editor. To see if that will work at boot time, try with:
<div style="border: 1px solid #A3B1BF; padding: .5em 1em; color: #000; background-color: #E6F2FF; margin: 3px 3px 1em 3px;"> mount -a</div>
If that gives you errors, there is a good chance that this line was not added properly and your machine may not reboot and get stuck mounting the drives!
