I need help with mounting extra storage
by H.F Knottle from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6Q57N)
Hi all I really need some help here.
I've been trying to add extra storage (extra HHD's) & I'm not having much luck.
I can format & mount the drives to folders without any issue
I'm running Zorin & have moved /home to a separate drive from the root drive. (by following a youtube tourtorial)
I then made the mistake of then trying to mount the extra drives to sub folders of /home, & the system crashed.
So I tried a different approach, I made sub folders in /mnt (/mnt/a, b, etc) & mounted the drives to the sub folders. If I make symlinks from the sub folders to my desktop (ln -s /mnt/a /home/user/Desktop) I don't get any permissions to use the folders.
What am I doing wrong?
thanks in advance for any help
I've been trying to add extra storage (extra HHD's) & I'm not having much luck.
I can format & mount the drives to folders without any issue
I'm running Zorin & have moved /home to a separate drive from the root drive. (by following a youtube tourtorial)
I then made the mistake of then trying to mount the extra drives to sub folders of /home, & the system crashed.
So I tried a different approach, I made sub folders in /mnt (/mnt/a, b, etc) & mounted the drives to the sub folders. If I make symlinks from the sub folders to my desktop (ln -s /mnt/a /home/user/Desktop) I don't get any permissions to use the folders.
What am I doing wrong?
thanks in advance for any help