How can I make this Data partition be readable and writeable? I tried the "chmod 777" command, but was unsure of what directory to type in . I tried several but the command wouldn't start. This partition is on the second hardrive. I am just trying to get more storage on the second hard drive, so I hope I partitioned correctly. The drive was originally mounted as usr, but I managed to shrink that and make a new partition named Data.

Partitions do not have ownerships or permissions, as they are just bits of disk.

Mount points (directories) do have ownerships/permissions - it is highly likely that
your data directory is owned by root and/or has no write access - especially if it is mounted as /data.

To see all relevant info, use a command entry screen and enter

Ok , here is what I got when I put that command in:

randy@randy-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-RG335UA-ABA ~ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 22G 1.8G 20G 9% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 986M 4.0K 986M 1% /dev
tmpfs 201M 1.4M 199M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 1001M 76K 1001M 1% /run/shm
none 100M 40K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sda3 85G 432M 80G 1% /home
/dev/sda1 3.7G 74M 3.4G 3% /boot
/dev/sdb1 6.3G 4.6G 1.4G 78% /usr


Does this help at all?

The output in your last post show sdb1 mounted at /usr and that is the only mount point on a second drive. If you have a second partition on that drive it won't show with df -h if it is not mounted. Did you create a data mount point? Where? Did you try to mount it? With what command.

ok, here it is with the drive mounted...

randy@randy-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-RG335UA-ABA ~ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 22G 1.8G 20G 9% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 986M 4.0K 986M 1% /dev
tmpfs 201M 1.4M 199M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 1001M 76K 1001M 1% /run/shm
none 100M 40K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sda3 85G 432M 80G 1% /home
/dev/sda1 3.7G 74M 3.4G 3% /boot
/dev/sdb1 6.3G 4.6G 1.4G 78% /usr
/dev/sdb2 104G 60M 99G 1% /media/randy/Data

Tried to copy a test document to it when mounted but still would not work...here is some more info:

/dev/sda2 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw 0 0
none /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
udev /dev devtmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755 0 0
none /run/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880 0 0
none /run/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /run/user tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755 0 0
none /sys/fs/pstore pstore rw 0 0
/dev/sda3 /home ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /usr ext4 rw 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
systemd /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd cgroup rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,none,name=systemd 0 0
gvfsd-fuse /run/user/1000/gvfs fuse.gvfsd-fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,user=randy 0 0


also this:

rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
udev /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=1008844k,nr_inodes=252211,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=204840k,mode=755 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/92d15c39-dd88-4872-bac6-2a7706b654b1 / ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,relatime,size=4k,mode=755 0 0
none /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,relatime 0 0
none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /run/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k 0 0
none /run/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
none /run/user tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=102400k,mode=755 0 0
none /sys/fs/pstore pstore rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/sda3 /home ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /usr ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
systemd /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,name=systemd 0 0
gvfsd-fuse /run/user/1000/gvfs fuse.gvfsd-fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000 0 0


Does that help describe the situation?

Your data partition isn't mounted.

The use of separate / and /usr partitions, whilst perfectly workable is rather unusual.
It's more usual to just treat /usr as a sub-directory of /

I'm guessing that your data partition is /dev/sdb2 - assuming that this is true...
If it was me...I would do - this will put your data mount-point in /.
Then add an extra line in /etc/fstab which is similar to the /dev/sdb1 line, but changing sdb1 to sdb2 & changing /usr to /dataThen reboot.

OK, I think I'm beginning to understand. This is the first time installing on a laptop with two hard drives. I have done four other installs but with only one drive. I thought I could have two home partitions, and when it wouldn't let me choose a second /home on the second drive I chose /usr. Now I know that was wrong.
Before I go any further here is the etc/mtab and proc/mounts info updated with the drive mounted if it makes any difference in which way I go with this.

/dev/sda2 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw 0 0
none /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
udev /dev devtmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755 0 0
none /run/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880 0 0
none /run/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /run/user tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755 0 0
none /sys/fs/pstore pstore rw 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /usr ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda3 /home ext4 rw 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
systemd /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd cgroup rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,none,name=systemd 0 0
gvfsd-fuse /run/user/1000/gvfs fuse.gvfsd-fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,user=randy 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /media/randy/306A-2060 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks2 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /media/randy/Data ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2 0 0


and this
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
udev /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=1008844k,nr_inodes=252211,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=204840k,mode=755 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/92d15c39-dd88-4872-bac6-2a7706b654b1 / ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,relatime,size=4k,mode=755 0 0
none /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,relatime 0 0
none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /run/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k 0 0
none /run/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
none /run/user tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=102400k,mode=755 0 0
none /sys/fs/pstore pstore rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /usr ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda3 /home ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
systemd /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,name=systemd 0 0
gvfsd-fuse /run/user/1000/gvfs fuse.gvfsd-fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /media/randy/306A-2060 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /media/randy/Data ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0

JeremyBoden, I think I am starting to head in the right direction. I understand the first command, but not sure what you mean by adding in the extra line.
By doing the fix method will I still have access to storage on the first drive or will the /home be only on the second drive? It would seem like a waste of two 120 gig drives to only be able to write to one drive. Thanks for your help and patience!

You should have just one line for /dev/sdb2 in /etc/fstab that readsThe other parameters such as nosuid etc are a bit esoteric and not needed.

You can access data stored in /home/randy (1st disk) and also data in /media/randy/Data (2nd disk), simultaneously.
You can't have more than one partition mounted as /home at the same time - this would cause Linux to get confused!

Work for the future...
When you get it working, I would create some meaningful sub-directories in /media/randy/Data and read up about symbolic links.

JeremyBoden,
Still not sure exactly what to do. I think I understand the concept but not the execution of it.
So far I will:

#1----open terminal and type in "sudo mkdir /data" and let that run...



#2----then while still in the terminal type in "sudo text_editor_of_your_choice /etc/fstab"
(Do I type that in exactly? meaning the "text_editor_of_your_choice" part?) or (I use the program "Text Editor")and let that run...

I can then open the file, "/etc/fstab" and there should only be this one line..."/dev/sdb2 /media/randy/Data ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 2"..... in it?

Is it just those two commands? Then I can access the second drive?
Sorry for the dumb questions....

Since you have chosen a mount-point of /media/randy/Data,
there is a slight amendment to #1:-
If you don't already have a directory called /media/randy/Data you need to create itFor #2, in addition to the current lines in /etc/fstab you need a line for /dev/sdb2
It should readYou can edit your /etc/fstab file with any text editor:-I suggest that for "text_editor_of_your_choice" you use a program such as nano or gedit or whatever you are most familiar with.