Problem configuring a new 1TB drive on Ubuntu 20.04.3 using fstab

[Keith]

On 1/4/22 2:46 PM, Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 10:21:16 +0000, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>>> 1) What is this dir lost+found used for and is it neccessary?
>>
>> It's used by fsck.  You should leave it alone.
>
> Too bad, I have deleted it already since such a dir is nowhere else to be seen.
>
>>> 2) In order to write files to this new disk I must use sudo, how can I allow a
>>> regular user (me) to also create files and dirs here?
>>> Do I have to sudo create a directory first and chmod it to 777?
>>
>> Don't chmod 777.  More usually you'd either create a subdirectory that's
>> owned by your normal non-root user, or just chown /mnt/data to your
>> normal non-root user, depending on how you plan to use the filesystem in
>> question.
>>
> I am going to use the disk for media storage, which clogs up my home dir too
> much. So I have made the newly created drive on this disk be mounted via fstab
> and then I have used rsync like this to copy the data from my home dir to the
> new drive:
>
> sudo rsync -aXS --progress /home/bosse/Videos /mnt/data/
> This took care of any permissions issues AFAICT.
>
> Then I renamed the original Videos dir and created a symlink /home/bosse/Videos
> pointing to /mnt/data/ (i.e. it is now on the big new drive).
>
> Everything seems to work as before so the next move is to remove the renamed
> Videos dir altogether.
>
> The plan then is to use GParted to shrink the system partition on the main drive
> and then create a  new partition on sda to hold /home in the free space created.
> This way the system is easier to manage and all of the user files will go to the
> separate partition on the same drive, whereas videos reside on the big new disk.
>
> But since I replaced the DVD drive on this laptop with a disk carrier for the
> 1TB data drive I cannot any longer boot to a DVD and use gparted from that...
> Have to figure out how to solve this...
>
>
You really should acquaint yourself with the application,
gnome-disk-utility (Disks), which I believe is installed by default with
the MATE desktop.

--
Keith