Applications Can't Access Second HDD - Ubuntu

[GrandNebSmada]

Applications that are installed on my main SSD (/dev/sda1) such as discord cannot access data on my secondary hard drive (/mnt/sdb1). For example if I try to upload an image that is stored on it, Discord tells me it failed to upload. This is also a problem for pretty much any software that isn't native to the OS.

[EphraimK]

Hope this helps!

 

https://askubuntu.com/questions/587399/cannot-access-second-hard-drive

[GrandNebSmada]

1 hour ago, EDK Tech said:

Hope this helps!

 

https://askubuntu.com/questions/587399/cannot-access-second-hard-drive

It doesn't unfortunately. My hard drive is mounted perfectly fine and I can access all the files on it through my file explorer. The problem is with other applications being able to access the files. They can see the drive, but there is a permission issue.

[Eigenvektor]

1 hour ago, 5Beans6 said:

Applications that are installed on my main SSD (/dev/sda1) such as discord cannot access data on my secondary hard drive (/mnt/sdb1).

Linux doesn't have a concept of drives (C:, D:) like Windows does. Instead you have a directory tree that starts at / and all directories beneath it contain your files. If you add an additional drive, that drive needs to be mounted somewhere in that directory tree. So e.g.the  /home/5Beans6 and /home/Eigenvektor directories could actually be on different drives. Most applications can's access the raw drive below /dev, since that require root permissions and is not a real directory.

 

In addition to the answer @EDK Tech gave you, here's a link explaining how to permanently mount the additional drive by configuring it in /etc/fstab:

https://confluence.jaytaala.com/display/TKB/Mount+drive+in+linux+and+set+auto-mount+at+boot

 

5 minutes ago, 5Beans6 said:

It doesn't unfortunately. My hard drive is mounted perfectly fine and I can access all the files on it through my file explorer. The problem is with other applications being able to access the files. They can see the drive, but there is a permission issue.

Ok, then you can probably ignore what I said above You probably need to set the permissions on the directory so that it is readable by your user without e.g. sudo. What do the current permissions look like?

[GrandNebSmada]

11 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

Linux doesn't have a concept of drives (C:, D:) like Windows does. Instead you have a directory tree that starts at / and all directories beneath it contain your files. If you add an additional drive, that drive needs to be mounted somewhere in that directory tree. So e.g.the  /home/5Beans6 and /home/Eigenvektor directories could actually be on different drives. Most applications can's access the raw drive below /dev, since that require root permissions and is not a real directory.

 

In addition to the answer @EDK Tech gave you, here's a link explaining how to permanently mount the additional drive by configuring it in /etc/fstab:

https://confluence.jaytaala.com/display/TKB/Mount+drive+in+linux+and+set+auto-mount+at+boot

 

Ok, then you can probably ignore what I said above You probably need to set the permissions on the directory so that it is readable by your user without e.g. sudo. What do the current permissions look like?

I tried changing the permissions and that didn't work. I also tried changing the owner of the entire drive to my user from root (using the recursive option) and it still says the owner is root and the programs still cant access it (I did use sudo)

 

Edit: Image of console output for ownership/permisions

[Eigenvektor]

On 11/14/2021 at 8:29 PM, 5Beans6 said:

I tried changing the permissions and that didn't work. I also tried changing the owner of the entire drive to my user from root (using the recursive option) and it still says the owner is root and the programs still cant access it (I did use sudo)

 

Edit: Image of console output for ownership/permisions

How did you mount the drive?

 

I would try mounting it into a subdirectory of your home directory, rather than /mnt. It's quite possible that's where software like Discord expects your files to be. If the /mnt directory isn't searchable by non-root users that could also be a reason why software doesn't see the mounted directory, even if that directory has read permissions for others.

 

For example, something like

mkdir ~/mnt
sudo mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 ~/mnt