newly mounted hard drive does not show up in file manager

Question

I am running Xubuntu 16.04 LTS (kernel version 4.4.0-51-generic) and have just added a 2nd hard drive to the system (2.0 TB SATA). I used gparted to partition and format (ext4) the drive and mounted the drive on /mnt/sdb1 and named the partition Storage. Everything seemed fine, I was able to create a directory and copy a file to it and read it back with cat. I added the line:

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 ext4 defaults 0 0

to /etc/fstab and rebooted. When I start up File Manager, it isn't listed in the Devices section, but if I go to /mnt/sdb1 under File System, I see the directory I created and can view the file I added - so the drive is mounted, just not view able as a new device.

How do I get it to appear as a new device in File Manager?

Solution 1

Use the bookmark to add it to the list of locations in file manager.

Steps:

1. In filemanager go to mount point: /mnt/sdb1

2. Change into /mnt/sdb1 and from the filemanager menu Bookmarks select Bootmark this location from the dropdown menu.

Solution 2

As I know, devices mounted under /media directory will showing up in file managers.

So, create a directory in /media, for example:

sudo mkdir /media/my-new-drive

Then change your fstab from:

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 ext4 defaults 0 0

To:

/dev/sdb1 /media/my-new-drive ext4 defaults 0 0

Reboot, or use sudo mount -a command to remount drives.

Should do the trick.

Comments

[George Udosen]

In Ubuntu every thing is under / and I believe /(root) appears as computer. Your new hdd is there, so why do you need it to appear in the location list in file manager?

[Elder Geek]

To the best of my knowledge, only removable media shows up as a new device in the file manager. Anything mounted in fstab is considered a permanent mount and not considered new per se. Most file managers have the capability of creating bookmarks so you could use one of those for a shortcut to the drive you mounted at /mnt/sdb1.