Adding a Second Hard Drive - Revision history

Kevin.Williams at 22:31, 11 April 2014

2014-04-11T22:31:10Z

Psullivan at 19:03, 28 March 2014

2014-03-28T19:03:24Z

Paulm at 19:51, 31 October 2013

2013-10-31T19:51:29Z

Mkille at 00:12, 14 August 2013

2013-08-14T00:12:44Z

Messingerevan: more clarification

2011-04-15T23:10:33Z

more clarification

Messingerevan: reordered and updated for readability

2011-04-15T23:02:29Z

reordered and updated for readability

Luiz: cleanup

2010-10-20T22:52:42Z

cleanup

Luiz: added help. link

2010-04-02T20:53:02Z

added help. link

Rfs at 20:00, 23 February 2010

2010-02-23T20:00:21Z

Luiz at 22:57, 13 February 2010

2010-02-13T22:57:53Z

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	This page is about making a second hard drive visible from a working install of Ubuntu.		This page is about making a second hard drive visible from a working install of Ubuntu.

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	This page is about making a second hard drive visible from a working install of Ubuntu.		This page is about making a second hard drive visible from a working install of Ubuntu.
	;See the following [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingANewHardDrive documentation] for command line/manual instructions.		;See the following [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingANewHardDrive documentation] for command line/manual instructions.

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 ==Granting Permissions to Normal Users==
-*If you want to allow a normal user to create files on this drive, you can either give this user ownership of the top directory of the drive filesystem: (replace USERNAME with the username)
+Once you can access the drive under "Places," we want to make it so everyday users of the machine can modify files on the new drive.
   sudo chown -R USERNAME:USERNAME /media/mynewdrive
-*or in a more flexible way, practical if you have several users, allow for instance the users in the plugdev group (usually those who are meant to be able to mount removable disks, desktop users) to create files and sub-directories on the disk:
+*For multiple users, give the users in the plugdev group permissions on the new disk:
   sudo chgrp plugdev /media/mynewdrive
   sudo chmod g+w /media/mynewdrive

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-==Ubuntu Documentation==
+This page is about making a second hard drive visible from a working install of Ubuntu.
-;Also see the following [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingANewHardDrive documentation].
+;See the following [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingANewHardDrive documentation] for command line/manual instructions.
-*or in a more flexible way, practical if you have several users, allow for instance the users in the plugdev group (usually those who are meant to be able to mount removable disks, desktop users) to create files and sub-directories on the disk:
+==Formatting an Unformatted Drive==
 Obviously, do this first if the drive is not formatted
 :1) Turn machine on, connect to Network
-:2) Get gparted via add/remove or with apt-get
+:2) Get gparted via software center, synaptic, or sudo apt-get (command line)
-:3) Open terminal, start gparted (type gparted)
+:3) Open it (System > Administration > GParted)
-:4) In upper right corner of Gparted window use pull down to select second drive
+:4) In upper right corner of GParted window use pull down to select second drive
 :5) In main window of Gparted select line that looks like this"
 * unallocated  .....   unallocated   XX.XX GB
 * right click on it and select, "New"
 * Create
-:6) select ext3 as format type
+:6) select ext4 as format type (or ext3 for backwards compatibility with Hardy)
 :7) Hard drive will not be seen under "Places" until restart
 [[Category: Tech support]]

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		+	;Also see the following [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingANewHardDrive documentation].
	:1) Turn machine on, connect to Network		:1) Turn machine on, connect to Network
	:2) Get gparted via add/remove or with apt-get		:2) Get gparted via add/remove or with apt-get

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