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I'm trying to create a storage partition on a second hard drive

Asked by chkneater

I have two hard drives which I had Ubuntu 8.10 on one and 8.04 on the other. I transferred all my stuff over to the drive with 8.1 on it. I used Gparted to format the drive that had 8.04 on it. Now I cannot move any files onto it because of root ownership. It also still has a directory in it (?) Lost and Found even after being reformatted. Also, on bootup it still gives me the option to boot from the 8.04 drive. I want to wipe the drive totally clean and use it strictly for storage.

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plutino (plutino) said : 		#1

For your first question, to write to the second hard drive, you can make a directory on the drive and give yourself the write permission:

# Assuming you mount the partition on the secondary at /second
sudo mkdir /second/user
sudo chown your_group:you_account /second/user

After this, you can copy files to /second/user

It's better to make a symbolic link to /second/user in your home directory:

ln -s /second/user ~/data

For the second question, Ubuntu 8.04 in the grub menu. It has nothing to do if you have anything on the second drive or not. All you need to do is to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to remove anything about Ubuntu 8.04

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chkneater (chkneater) said : 		#2

Thanx, I had to figure out the right path, but eventually was able to create a dir I can access using the chown command. Thanx again!