10-10-2018, 02:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-10-2018, 05:23 PM by Tyrannocaster.)
I tried automounting them (I used Gnome Disks to do it), but while that worked, it changed the path from (for example) /media/ben/TOSH to /mnt/38FA4774FA472E06/ and I find that not useful at all. I put it back the way it was and now I just remember to manually mount the two external drive partitions when I boot up.
So, to answer your question, it doesn't matter which way I do it as long as I can keep a path structure that makes sense to me; using the mount point to identify the drive is never going to work for me.
EDIT: just now I tried to move a file from one directory on the partition to another directory on the SAME partition of the second drive, and it wouldn't let me do it with drag-and-drop at all. No USB drives involved, and no transfer from one hard drive to another - just from one directory to another. Once again, I had to COPY the file, then PASTE it into the other directory, then manually delete the original copy. I checked again, and all permissions say I can do anything with that file; actually, anybody can do anything with it.
EDIT 2: I tried again with a different file from the same folder and got the same result so I opened a RUN window from the destination folder and entered sudo -i pcmanfm [that's my file manager] which gave me a superuser file manager and I was able to drag to that window and drop the file into it, which worked. Several YouTube videos have shown people opening folders as root as an option in their file manager but mine does not give me that option.
So, to answer your question, it doesn't matter which way I do it as long as I can keep a path structure that makes sense to me; using the mount point to identify the drive is never going to work for me.
EDIT: just now I tried to move a file from one directory on the partition to another directory on the SAME partition of the second drive, and it wouldn't let me do it with drag-and-drop at all. No USB drives involved, and no transfer from one hard drive to another - just from one directory to another. Once again, I had to COPY the file, then PASTE it into the other directory, then manually delete the original copy. I checked again, and all permissions say I can do anything with that file; actually, anybody can do anything with it.
EDIT 2: I tried again with a different file from the same folder and got the same result so I opened a RUN window from the destination folder and entered sudo -i pcmanfm [that's my file manager] which gave me a superuser file manager and I was able to drag to that window and drop the file into it, which worked. Several YouTube videos have shown people opening folders as root as an option in their file manager but mine does not give me that option.