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yup its listed. Thankyou so much for all your help, it's really a steep learning curve when you've had nothing to do with linux at all.

ok, so without string and the drive showing up in the DEVICES section, i created a Text File. Abcdefg.txt I copied and pasted your string, placed in fstab, mounted, rebooted. CACHE isnt showing up in a Devices section like it was previously ? is that correct ? ( picture shown, labelled Screenshot ) i then went to the filesystem/mgt/cache and the abcdefg.txt file is in there. is that correct ? 3rd picture labelled 2.png, was after i removed the string you wrote, it's showing up as "Cache" in the Devices section again, the abcdefg file is there also. fstab is how i've placed the string you've listed me

so when i remove the UUID string from FSTAB then mounting the drive it keeps automatically allocating it to /media/lan/cache it shows up in the "Devices" section of the file manager Taken from sudo blkid -c /dev/null -o list /dev/md0p1 ext4 cache /media/lan/cache e2b3039e-d1e6-4bf9-b179-e26157403205 in Gparted, the raid drive reffers to /dev/md0p1 if i add that UUID to fstab like nick7 listed, ( after unmounting and mounting ) the device doesnt show up any more in the devices section how do i mount it so it will STAY in the devices section ( if it's meant to be there), putting anything in the mount position removes it from the devices list

yeah i'll need more help please, pretty sure i only have 4 hairs left on my head since working on this.. lol if it was the incorrect one, how is it able to mount "Nothing" then, i've tried all the others and still doesnt work

So..... i just right clicked on the desktop, there was a "Open as root" option. i clicked it, as was able to swap and adjust the permissions on the "Cache" drive. also, when i run gparted i get this

yup, restarted tonnes of times

that's probably why i'm having so many issues, i had ubuntu 18.04 installed before hand, but was having issues, so the guy in the video was using mint, so i gave that a go. (so i could follow commands exactly) however the commands and being able to adjust the permissions worked perfectly in ubuntu. so the nemo admin:// command went through, it took me to ///admin, but still doesnt give me an option to adjust the drive permissions so iwent down the command path. i just want to confirm something here, as i feel as if i've done it wrong so with my FSTAB file, i've added the UUID, changed the mount point to /mnt/cache ( as shown below ) however when i click properties on the mounted drive it says my location is /MEDIA/LAN/ (name of the computer is lan btw) shouldnt that location be /Cache ? anyway. The "Cache" folder is showing up on the desktop AND in the file manager, so i've clearly mounted it properly but ran "sudo chmod 777 -R /mnt/cache" which didnt ask for a password ? went through. still no access. seeing as both didnt work. in your opinion, would i be best to just go back through all this again using Ubuntu ? once again, really appreciate the help guys, i'm sure it's frustrating for such simple commands, but linux has just thrown me.

Thanks Nick, i really appreciate your help your giving. managed to get it mounting on boot. after a LOT of diddling, clearly still learning how to get around linux for anyone learning from this thread, i had to install "Gedit" to edit the fstab file. it wasnt saving it with normal edit for some reason.. Anyway. its now mounting, however dont have permissions, i've tried "ALT-F2" and "GKSUDO NEMO" that i found on a youtube video https://youtu.be/AeR8Rk5LwWU?t=801 however it's saying "failed to execute child process gksudo" even though on the video, he's using mint and he said nemo is the filemanager that mint is using. i've googled and googled, but cant seem to find what i'm looking for to edit the file he's talking about. I downloaded the absolute latest mint "Ulyana Cinnamon 64" if that helps EDIT: so apparately they've taken out the GK part of the command, however i type "sudo nemo" and its like the command goes through, but no password request comes up or file manager shows EDIT 2: if i type just NEMO, it loads up the file manager (just not in elevated)

Ok, Next Issue. After creating the RAID, i loaded up Gparted, the i've Allocated the Partition, formatted it to EXT4. it's now Named /dev/md127 (3.64TiB) so it's there, but i cant mount it in Gparted, the mount section isnt highlighting, and cant be chosen. therefore i cant see it in the Devices section as an additional hard drive. How do i get it to show up there ? as individual drives, it would allow me to mount them, not as this raid though Have also removed the Partition then - Device - Create Partition Table, Table type as MSDOS, which goes fine, then when i Create new Partition, then confirm action says "An Error Occurred while applying the operations" saved the error, this was at the bottom. Create Primary Partition #1 (ext4, 3.64 TiB) on /dev/md127 00:00:00 ( ERROR ) create empty partition 00:00:00 ( ERROR ) libparted messages ( ERROR ) partition length of 7813040128 sectors exceeds the msdos-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295

I did think about raid 5, however the information really isn't that important to me to be stored long time. This is a basic process to save time and data download 1 night every couple of months ( for a lan ). My net sits at around 4mb speeds. So around 8 people download 150mb update each stresses my net to its limits

awesome info guys, i've been struggling with this bloody raid for a couple of days now. so i've installed MDADM ran this command then ran Gparted to see, there is now a new drive called /dev/md0 (3.64TiB) so that seems to have worked, however in the guide i read it said "it will take some time to do" so i did a check with this command and got the response. says active raid... does this mean it's complete and the drive is ready to mount ? by the time typed the second command was around 30 seconds. " take some time to do" seems like an hour or so to me ? cheers

Linux Help please ( first time using linux ) i am making a steam cache server using "Lancache" but stuck on raid issues i have Linux Mint installed on 250gb drive 4 x 1TB drives This part added as it may be relevant to issue ---- ---- ok, so now that the error isnt showing up now When Gparted is loaded, i click in the top right and it shows the Physical 5 drives listed PLUS a 1.64TB drive ( which i imagine is the raid ?) . i thought that if i had raided them, it would only show 2 drives. 1 x 250gb and 1 x 4TB ? as you can see from the pics it automatically allocated 931.51gb to the partition ( i didnt adjust, this is straight after the raid setup) what have a dum dum done that's making this not work properly edit: so i can partition the 1.64gb drive into a 931gb drive, any larger and it says i "cant allocate outside the physical drive" also added this info that a guy said on facebook, but he hasnt responded, so thought this will be helpful to you guys if theres any more info you need, please give the commands to type, so that i can get the information to you quicker thanks for your help