Adding a Hard Drive to an Ubuntu Linux Desktop Computer

Create a partition and mount it

Change Ownership of Added Hard Drive at T=9m

Method Used

• Watch first video above and learn how to mount a drive and all the informational  commands to list the states
• Watch second video if you need to change ownership
• Use the Disk Utility of Link #2 below to alter the Fstab file so disk will be mounted at boot up.

 

Research Links

1. Installing exfat-utils    – to allow a windows compatible file syste to be written by fdisk under linux command:   sudo fdisk exfat /dev/sdc1
2. How to Mount Drives on Linux: Command Line & GUI  –  this has a synopsis of the drive mounting procedure.   Shows the Disk Utility that can alter the Fstab file to automatically mount the drive at boot up.

 

Notes

• Physicall install the drive
• Create partition(s)
• Format the partition
• Find the drive in /dev
• Create directory in /mnt or /media with the name of the drive
• sudo mount sdb1 /mnt/2THD
• The drive will be mounted now with root as owner – Will this work as an auxiliary drive for Bitcoin-Core?

 

Additional Links

• Ubuntu: Installing A New Hard Drive
• Ubuntu: Introduction to fstab
• Ubuntu: How do I add an additional hard drive?
• Ubuntu: Manage volumes and partitions

 

USB Flash Drive Testing Links –  F3 (Fight Flash Fraud )

• How To Uninstall f3 on Ubuntu 20.04
• How to test capacity of USB Flash with F3

 

Installing GParted

• sudo apt-get install gparted