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deckman:
Many thanks, that make sense, I really appreciate you taking the time to explain this. I think I formatted the disk for NTFS but will take some time over the next few days to fully understand. For now, I’m just relieved to know what the issue is and that it is fixable. I have some more hardware mods to do and I want to see if I can get my CD ripping software, DB poweramp to run in wine. (Then I think I will be fully cured of Microsoft.) At some point I will do a complete clean install of mint, more for the experience than necessity, When I do this if I have root and swap on the SSD then home on the WD red I assume this would be a more 'elegant' solution? (I understand there are advantages to having home on a separate partition when it come to updating.)
mwillems:
--- Quote from: deckman on March 05, 2016, 03:59:05 pm ---Many thanks, that make sense, I really appreciate you taking the time to explain this. I think I formatted the disk for NTFS but will take some time over the next few days to fully understand.
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Ntfs disks can be a little tricky on Linux, but most of the bugs have been ironed out in recent years. If it's an ntfs disk just substitute "ntfs" for "ext4" in the fstab entry.
--- Quote ---For now, I’m just relieved to know what the issue is and that it is fixable. I have some more hardware mods to do and I want to see if I can get my CD ripping software, DB poweramp to run in wine. (Then I think I will be fully cured of Microsoft.)
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If you figure out how to do this, do let me know; I've had no success running dBpoweramp in wine and would love to know that it's still possible. Meanwhile, I use soundjuicer on Linux when I'm not in front of a windows box: it pulls from musicbrains database and does (to my knowledge) secure ripping (but not accurate rip obviously as that's proprietary). Sooner or later JRiver for linux might support ripping as well, but that's still a little ways off as I understand it.
--- Quote --- At some point I will do a complete clean install of mint, more for the experience than necessity, When I do this if I have root and swap on the SSD then home on the WD red I assume this would be a more 'elegant' solution? (I understand there are advantages to having home on a separate partition when it come to updating.)
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For sure there can be advantages to having a separate home partition, especially with distros like Mint where you reinstall once or twice a year. Personally, I keep my data segregated in directories under home because a lot of user configuration winds up in the root of home and I want to be able to blow away all my configuration easily while keeping my data. But your proposed plan is a good one, especially if you're planning to stick with Mint..
Once you've spent some more time with Linux and are more comfortable on the command line, I'd highly recommend having a look at Arch. Definitely not for beginners (a much steeper learning curve), but you learn a lot and never have to reinstall because it's a rolling release. But one step at a time ;)
Awesome Donkey:
Does Mint not include the GUI-based Disks like Ubuntu does? Makes mounting volumes much, much easier.
mwillems:
--- Quote from: Awesome Donkey on March 05, 2016, 10:22:34 pm ---Does Mint not include the GUI-based Disks like Ubuntu does? Makes mounting volumes much, much easier.
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It may; I don't run Mint/Ubuntu at all so I can't speak to that. It probably does since the file manager is automounting the drive for him. But it only mounts it when he navigates to it, not automatically at boot. Editing the fstab is a reliable way of permanently changing the mount on boot options. Most GUI mounters I've interacted don't reliably remount things at boot, but if Disks will do that, it may well be easier and OP should investigate it.
In any case learning about the fstab is useful for 'nix users sooner or later; eventually he may want to socket mount a networked drive on boot or something which is trivial in the fstab, but not so easy from any GUI utility I've ever seen.
deckman:
Thank you all for your help. After a few attempts the drive now mounts at start and jriver seams to be playing everything OK. I have tried dbpoweramp in wine but with limited success as dbpoweramp does not recognise there is a CD drive and I have not been able to fix this. I did have some success with ‘Morituri’ (http://cd-rw.org/t/make-perfect-audio-cd-rips-using-morituri-linux/24) but it is painfully slow compared to dbpoweramp so the search for an ‘accurate rip on Linux goes on. Over the last few weeks I have installed loads of stuff, played with the terminal, changed all the settings I could find and despite my ‘irresponsible’ behaviour I have yet to ‘break Linux mint. MC21 has also remained stable and works well with Gizmo on the android tab.
So now I know what I want and how I’m going to configure it all I can wipe all the drives, start again with a clean install and purchase MC21.
Thanks again for all your help. :)
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