Install new SSD SATA Internal Drive

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I’m trying to install a second internal drive and get Umbrel to recognize it. My current drive is a 2TB NVME drive and I just installed a 2TB M.2 SATA drive. I have Umbrel installed on a Mini GMKtec G3 PC. I’m not a Linux guru, sorry even though I’m on a Linux machine daily. Is there instructions someone can point me to?

Here is the output from lsblk.

umbrel@umbrel:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk
nvme0n1 259:0 0 1.8T 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 200M 0 part /mnt/root/boot/efi
│ /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 9.6G 0 part /mnt/root
│ /
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 9.6G 0 part
└─nvme0n1p4 259:4 0 1.8T 0 part /mnt/root/var/log
/var/log
/mnt/root/var/lib/systemd/timesync
/var/lib/systemd/timesync
/mnt/root/var/lib/docker
/var/lib/docker
/mnt/root/home
/home
/mnt/root/data
/data

Thanks!

2

it all depends on what you want to use it for

3

I would like to use it to store data for Plex, movies and TV shows and save my main NVME drive for Bitcoin Core blockchain data.

4

ok, for simplicity, we make the Videos directory the mount point.

in the linux system you mount drives into empty folder.

Now there are several ways to do this, but I am going to show you the easy way to do this.
Since you know your drive is sda by the lsblk command, we just need to set it up, partition and format, then add it permanently to the Videos directory :

sudo apt-get install parted -y 
sudo parted /dev/sda

then you will be in the (parted) program propmt, then you type:

mklabel gpt
mkpart primary ext4 0% 100%

then press ctrl+c to exit parted, then label the partition:

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
sudo e2label /dev/sda1 "Videos"

then we edit the mounting table file with one of the editors and add the entry:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

under the last entry add:

LABEL="Videos"  /home/umbrel/umbrel/home/Videos ext4 defaults 0 2

ctrl+o to save, press enter, ctrl+x to exit, then:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
mount -a

now it should be in your Videos folder and it will be there after boot. You can tell that it mounted the drive in the by the command:

lsblk

which is going to look odd because there is 4 mount entries due to how they created this docker container.

in the Videos folder there is a folder you can delete called “lost+found” which is the trashcan folder for the drive that was made when it was formatted and is not used.

5

Awesome, thanks!