secondary drive
New to linux as a whole and the past two weeks has been a rough experience, been trying to connect second drive so when i install stuff it gets installed there instead cause my os drive is a teeny tiny ssd and from what i understand with bazaar and most non terminal installs don´t give you an option to actually choose where to install.
Every new install i´ve tried a new method which has somewhat worked, but has broken something else, like steam not registering the library or vpn with a kill switch function not connecting to the vpn so it doesn´t get any connection to login to account or the latest install where i can´t apply changes to the desktop so it won´t persist through a reset.
Nor has auto mount ever persisted through a shut down or restart so i´ve pretty much always have had to manually mount through the terminal after which apps "crash" and after reopening they contain the data e.g steam library. Except the last install where i discovered the built in kde disk manager (via bazzite docs), which visually yes shows that it does mount, but half the programs don´t get the data for from that drive.
In short i´m asking for a bit of guidance that does work without something breaking as a result.
Every new install i´ve tried a new method which has somewhat worked, but has broken something else, like steam not registering the library or vpn with a kill switch function not connecting to the vpn so it doesn´t get any connection to login to account or the latest install where i can´t apply changes to the desktop so it won´t persist through a reset.
Nor has auto mount ever persisted through a shut down or restart so i´ve pretty much always have had to manually mount through the terminal after which apps "crash" and after reopening they contain the data e.g steam library. Except the last install where i discovered the built in kde disk manager (via bazzite docs), which visually yes shows that it does mount, but half the programs don´t get the data for from that drive.
In short i´m asking for a bit of guidance that does work without something breaking as a result.
Solution
If you want an ugly way that will technically work, if you clean the HDD's filesystem (
you can do
wipefs -a /dev/sdb1you can do
btrfs device add /dev/sdb1 /home/