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Problem: new hard drive doesn't show up in file system where I can easily access data and save stuff.

I am trying to install and mount a new SATA SSD hard drive for additional file storage.

I used gparted to partition and mount the disk. I followed the advice from this question to partition and mount.

This is my output from sudo parted -l

(base) john@john-linux:~$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA Samsung SSD 860 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name  Flags
 1      1049kB  1000GB  1000GB  ext4


Model: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 1TB (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:


Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                  Flags
 1      1049kB  538MB   537MB   fat32        EFI System Partition  boot, esp
 2      538MB   1000GB  1000GB  ext4

Here's a screenshot of my file system in my Other locations tab in file manager. I thought I could expect to see my new SATA SSD here after partitioning and mounting. However, all it shows is my M.2 SSD.

Here is the output from system-info. I've mounted the partition to /mnt. Which I've been able to find but cannot read or write data to it.

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This answer describes how to manage a partition with a Linux file system (in this particular case ext4).

The "Mount Details of '/etc/fstab'" and "Current Mount Details of 'mount'" are useful. The drive is mounted with read/write permissions (for the owner).

I think that only the superuser root has privilages to write to the drive at the top level /mnt. You can live with that and create a [sub]directory

sudo mkdir /mnt/mydir

and modify the ownership

sudo chown "$USER":"$USER" /mnt/mydir

After that you should be able to create/modify/delete files and directories there. You can test with

cd /mnt/mydir
echo 'Hello World' > hello
cat hello
mkdir testdir
ls -l
rm hello
rmdir testdir
ls -l
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