AP-Linux-V4 available
April 16, 2017
AP Linux v5 install instructions
December 20, 2019
- 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
22 Comments
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!
================
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…
OS never screws the disks. No such thing. Disks, on the other hand, have very often the habit of screwing themselves. SSD a lot less but they also do that. There must be some electrical issues in your setup… or it’s a simple although rare, coincidence.
Finally I was able to install AP linux but having problems related to second ssd just for music files. 60GB Dogfish mssd is being used for AP Linux and I want to use Samsung QVO 1TB SSD as music storage only.
But when I follow 7th line “””Create directory “mkdir /ssd-disk1”””” then I see ssd-disk1 in Dogfish mSSD and not second 1TB SSD.
Please help.
I am stuck at step 12. I get the message that ssd-disk1 is not found. This could be due to incorrect command at step 7 (mkdir /ssd-disk1). What is the full command to be given at step 7. Please help.
What does the “fdisk -l” command say?
Thanks Marko. Could you please guide me to correct step 7 command ? II am just typing mkdir/ssd-disk1 and this dir is being shown in Dogfish ssd rather than in the 2nd Samsung ssd. I know I am doing it wrong way. This is my first linux install for my computer audio transport.
It would be better to post fdisk -l after giving correct command.
And sorry for using two different names for last two questions. One is my real name and other is my usr id on linux.
BTW below is the fdisk -l response till step 6
Disk /dev/sda: 931.53 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: Samsung SSD 860
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x1d7ef88a
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 2048 1953525167 1953523120 931.5G 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 55.92 GiB, 60022480896 bytes, 117231408 sectors
Disk model: DOGFISH SSD 60GB
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x9151bd41
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 117231407 117229360 55.9G 83 Linux
root@apl /home/rsj #
Suddenly I was able to do it and below is the answer to few commands. 256GB is external USB which will be used to copy music to ssd-disk1.
root@apl /home/rsj # df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 55G 4.3G 48G 9% /
/dev/sda1 916G 77M 870G 1% /ssd-disk1
root@apl /home/rsj # lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 931.5G 0 part /ssd-disk1
sdb 8:16 0 55.9G 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 55.9G 0 part /
sdc 8:32 1 238.4G 0 disk
└─sdc1 8:33 1 238.4G 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
root@apl /home/rsj # blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID=”ae4881d1-d342-4e39-86c8-9f45b03968bc” TYPE=”ext4″ PARTUUID=”1d7ef88a-01″
/dev/sdb1: UUID=”c1ce4a18-31cb-47aa-9bc4-2712d4bb62ee” TYPE=”ext4″ PARTUUID=”9151bd41-01″
/dev/sdc1: LABEL=”USB 256GB” UUID=”383867D138678D26″ TYPE=”ntfs” PARTUUID=”5e86a726-01″
root@apl /home/rsj #
After hours of headaches I still cannot manage to install APL 4.0
I did the following:
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdXX
# mount /dev/sdXX /mnt
# time cp -ax / /mnt
# arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
# cd /etc/apl-files
# ./runme.sh
# grub-install –target=i386-pc /dev/sdX
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
# passwd root
# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Dublin /etc/localtime
# hwclock –systohc –utc
# ./autologin.sh
# exit
# genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
# reboot
after the reboot it started up fine. I was able to see the GUI 🙂
However, then the problems started.
– ping 8.8.8.8 (good, I have internet access)
– su (also no problems here)
– pacman-key –init (still good)
– pacman -key -populate archlinux (fine)
– skipped pacman -Sy (because of ppl saying this is no good practice)
– pacman -Suy (2600MB of install size, so it took 20 mins or so, went fine)
– pacman -Rc libxfont (error, couldn’t find package libxfont)
– pacman -S terminus-font (ok)
– pacman -S xorg-server (ok)
– reboot -> ERROR: xauth: timeout in locking authority file/home/xxx/.Xauthority
it is stuck there.
Don’t do anything after “pacman -key -populate archlinux”. The update is broken. You can use the system without these commands.
Hi, if I do that I just have a desktop and nothing works. I mean, audacious doesn’t start up, I cannot install anything (like rubberband ladspa plugin) and thus it is unusable. What are my options? Thanks
Thanks. Yes it gives me a GUI without any issue, problem is I cannot install anything (I want to install samba or a file share client to be able to interact with my NAS, and rubberband ladspa plugins) because I always get the following errors:
– warning: databasefile file for ‘ core’ does not exist (same for extra and community
I checked for answers, ALL say: update with pacman -Syu, which breaks the system
It’s totally unusable. It’s a shame but I am fed up wasting days of my life to get this shit running. I will try other distro’s. Thanks anyway for trying to help but it’s beyond my abilities right now to fix it.