Useful Thoughts and Actions Taken

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?
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Research Links

Slack Related

User-Agent Switcher and Manager – Browser Extension Review 

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