After installing Bazzite this morning, everything is working great except that my hard drives (2x 4 TB) are not showing up.

I previously used them on Windows for my media and plex server (which I still have dual booted while I get my bearings on Linux), but they’re not showing in Linux.

Any ideas?

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    14 hours ago

    I assume you mean they aren’t mounted and readily showing up for access. Are they encrypted?

    Open whatever disk manager you like and see if there drives are detected, but just not mounted. Usually the case if they are encrypted.

    • Wammityblam@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      14 hours ago

      I’ll have to look on lunch here in a bit.

      How can I see if they’re detected vs mounted?

      I’ve only done very basic Linux in the past so this is all pretty new to me.

      • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        14 hours ago

        Detected means the system sees them. Mounted means the partitions in those drives have been mapped to a local area on your filesystem where you can access them.

        Depending on your desktop and settings, this is usually an automatic thing for well known filesystems like NTFS or FAT, but not so with encrypted volumes because there are extra steps to mounting them during boot (like a passphrase).

        If they you had Bitlocker enabled in Windows, then they will not automount. So if in Gnome open up the ‘Disks’ app, or ‘Partition Manager’ in KDE, see if your dicks show up there, then click on the partition you want to mount and it should ask for your disk password to mount it.

      • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        13 hours ago

        Open a terminal and type “fdisk -l” to see a list of your detected drives. If they are there, it just means they have not been mounted.

      • mumblerfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        13 hours ago

        lsblk will show if they are detected. You should be able to identify them by size.

        mount to see if they are mounted.

        They will probably have generic names, e.g. /dev/sdb or so in these commands. To identify specifics about which disk is which, look at something like ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/ and see which device they are linked to.