Installing storage hd

[VicenteMMOS]

Hello, there!

Just yesterday, I installed Ubuntu MATE, and have spent the last 15 hours configuring my system. I'm having a lot of fun doing it, even though it's actually a bit difficult. Linux doesn't hand you all the information you need, but it's amazing how just a few quick searches can get you going, I'm having a great time trying to solve all these basic problems xD

Anyways, I have an SSD disk where Ubuntu is actually installed, and I have a regular 3.5" disk for only storage. The thing is I don't know how to properly configure it in my system. I followed this guide -> https://askubuntu.com/questions/125257/how-do-i-add-an-additional-hard-drive but it didn't work that well. I tried installing GParted, and tried also using the commands in the terminal, but when I try the command sudo vim /etc/fstab I get the erro 'sudo: vim: command not found'.

Up to this point, I see the driver in my 'file explorer' UI, but it looks like an external disk (meaning that the 'eject' button appears at the right-hand side of the driver icon), and I can't copy any files inside of it.

Would anyone please help me figure out how to solve this problem?

Thank you

 

[Lazydog]

OK, first is the drive even mounted? You can check that with mount.

To use GParted the drive needs to be unmounted.

 

[VicenteMMOS]

Thanks, I already found the solution to this problem. It took me a while to understand that Linux file structure is more "straightforward" then Window's. I mean, all there was to it was to know that I needed a mounting point, and an ext4 formatting type on my hdd, then I could mount it and use it how I wanted to. Then I manually changed all my user folder paths to the hdd from the config file (don't even remember exactly which...), and that was it! GParted wasn't really necessary.

 

[Lazydog]

Glad you got this figured out.