- Add disk to your PC
- Open terminal and become root with “su” command
- Find the name of your new disk with “fdisk -l” command
- Let’s suppose that your new disk has name /dev/sdb
- Create one partition with “fdisk /dev/sdb” or “cfdisk /dev/sdb”
- Create file system on that partition with “mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1”
- Create directory “mkdir /ssd-disk1”
- Make you owner of that directory “chown your-username:your-username /ssd-disk1”
- Automount – Edit /etc/fstab with “nano /etc/fstab”
- Add this line at the end of /etc/fstab
- /dev/sdb1 /ssd-disk1 ext4 rw,noatime,discard,data=ordered 0 2
- Try to mount without restart “mount /ssd-disk1”
- Try to see disk free command “df”
- If everything is ok, reboot and you should have your disk auto-mounted automatically.
- Copy music to /ssd-disk1
- Set up MPD so Cantata can see the files on the new disk
- Option 1. “ln -s /ssd-disk1 /home/your-username/Music”
- Option 2. edit /etc/mpd.conf and set music_directory path to /ssd-disk1
- Restart MPD and refresh database in Cantata
Has been trying in vain to add an extra internal disk.
Thank you for this article, I have added an internal hard disk following your instructions.
A big thank you to your hard work and dedication to the music lover community.
AP Linux is excellent! Thank you!
My music disk is NTFS.
How to?
Thanks.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS-3G
Modified /etc/fstab file to add my ntfs logical partition with musics:
/dev/sda8 /home/user_name/Music ntfs rw,defaults,noatime 0 0
One more question.
I plan to use AP-Linux as headless music server, so I’d like to share AP-Linux music disk. This way I could download musics in my Windows workstation and copy them to AP-Linux by network.
Is is bad to add a sharing server in AP-Linux (resources)?
Which server do you recommend?
I am new to linux.
NFS first, Samba second. I don’t know if Windows can access NFS.
Thank you.
Very easy to use NFS:
– edit /etc/exports and add /home/user_name/Music *(rw,async,no_root_squash)
– config nfs-server to autostart: systemctl enable nfs-server
In Windows 10:
– Add NFS client (Control panel-programs and features-Turn windows features on or off)
– Them run regedit.exe (tip from web), locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ClientForNFS\CurrentVersion\Default. Add two DWORD values: AnonymousUid and AnonymousGid. Set these values to 1000 in decimal base. Restart computer.
Almost everything ok…
NTFS music partition working…
NFS sharing working…
MPD working… Nice clean sound AP-Linux has!!
One problem:
After completing my settings, I removed the display (my system will be headless) and after that I discovered the system doesn’t boot without a display. I connected the display again and saw this message on top left of screen:
================
GRUB loading.
Welcome to GRUB!
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And no boot.
How to solve this?
Ps.: If I turn off and boot with display connected, It works.
Thanks.
Newbie: Just got installed last week. Can view & play any music files in Cantata -> Folders. But in ‘Library’, it’s not being able to see all my music files after scanning, only some wav & ape but not flac. Some have .cue paired with .wav/.ape that is reading off an external USB HDD drive (ie. /run/Media/user/Music) that is mounted properly in fstab over a notebook. Scanning the mpd database only bring up a few music files, what can I do ?
Hello,
I use AP-linux everyday and it work good but after a year or a year and a half, the second disk failed totally. First, it were hdd 2To (kaput) and now ssd 500 Go (kaput now !!!). I try to save the ssd with fdisk and fsck but this tools failed too. So I try to refurbish the ssd with hdparm and it already failed. That’s great because I’ve got an other PC with a debian distribution and ssd and hdd disk and there’s no matter.
So what’s the matter with my disks on AP-linux ? Is it just a coincidence or someone else have the same problem ?
Thanks for reply.
Tom.
This has nothing to do with AP-Linux. It happened to me running other OS’s. Who knows what it can be. But I would backup this Debian just in case…Maybe it’s your PC…