Server Drive Access Question
3 messages · started by otter on Dec 20, 2019
Server Drive Access Question
From otter · Dec 20, 2019
Hello LUGites:
I have an Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS server running headless on an x86_64
machine on my home/office network. I spent a lot of time on it this summer tinkering with a mail server
config and a web server config (yes, on the same server, which I realize
is a "no-no"). Anyway, my mailservice config was imperfect and didn't
work, and the web server didn't work although the problem might have
been the ISP, not me. Anyway, I bring up the aforementioned time investment in the server's
configuration, because one of the fixes for my current problem is to
re-install. (That is, I'd prefer not to re-install if I don't have to.) Here's the conundrum: The server is installed on a 60 gig SSD. There is
a 400 gig SATA drive also within the same tower, which contains a copy
of my audio archives (which is backed-up elsewhere, but it's the archive
which is (was) on-production on the LAN). Problem is, I don't know how
to access it after I boot the headless server. When I had a GUI Ubuntu
installed on the SSD, I could just click my way to the other drive, then
drag-and-drop as necessary--and it was like that for so long, that the
password necessary for directly logging-in to the Ubuntu operating
system (I think it's 16.xx) installed on the SATA drive, is long forgotten. Time was, I would have just mounted the second drive as a superuser
through a text terminal running from the headless SSD-based Ubuntu 18
version. Can I still do that, or has contemporary Ubuntu become too
"user friendly"? Otherwise, it may be a convo about resetting the
password through the same route, with the same question mark. ~Otto clugwrench fusepowder.com --------------------------------------------------------------------
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machine on my home/office network. I spent a lot of time on it this summer tinkering with a mail server
config and a web server config (yes, on the same server, which I realize
is a "no-no"). Anyway, my mailservice config was imperfect and didn't
work, and the web server didn't work although the problem might have
been the ISP, not me. Anyway, I bring up the aforementioned time investment in the server's
configuration, because one of the fixes for my current problem is to
re-install. (That is, I'd prefer not to re-install if I don't have to.) Here's the conundrum: The server is installed on a 60 gig SSD. There is
a 400 gig SATA drive also within the same tower, which contains a copy
of my audio archives (which is backed-up elsewhere, but it's the archive
which is (was) on-production on the LAN). Problem is, I don't know how
to access it after I boot the headless server. When I had a GUI Ubuntu
installed on the SSD, I could just click my way to the other drive, then
drag-and-drop as necessary--and it was like that for so long, that the
password necessary for directly logging-in to the Ubuntu operating
system (I think it's 16.xx) installed on the SATA drive, is long forgotten. Time was, I would have just mounted the second drive as a superuser
through a text terminal running from the headless SSD-based Ubuntu 18
version. Can I still do that, or has contemporary Ubuntu become too
"user friendly"? Otherwise, it may be a convo about resetting the
password through the same route, with the same question mark. ~Otto clugwrench fusepowder.com --------------------------------------------------------------------
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Re: Server Drive Access Question
From HateNo Hama · Dec 21, 2019
Hi Otto. Yes, you can still mount it via the command line. To make it persistent, add it to your fstab file on your server.
Find the /dev/sd it is (check dmesg) and use the mount command - mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /your/target/directory
I'm going off memory, so check these commands against Google.
Bruce
On Sat, Dec 21, 2019, 2:52 AM otter <otter@azloco.com> wrote:
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Hello LUGites: I have an Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS server running headless on an x86_64 machine on my home/office network.
Hello LUGites:
I have an Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS server running headless on an x86_64
machine on my home/office network.
I spent a lot of time on it this summer tinkering with a mail server
config and a web server config (yes, on the same server, which I realize
is a "no-no"). Anyway, my mailservice config was imperfect and didn't
work, and the web server didn't work although the problem might have
been the ISP, not me.
Anyway, I bring up the aforementioned time investment in the server's
configuration, because one of the fixes for my current problem is to
re-install. (That is, I'd prefer not to re-install if I don't have to.)
Here's the conundrum: The server is installed on a 60 gig SSD. There is
a 400 gig SATA drive also within the same tower, which contains a copy
of my audio archives (which is backed-up elsewhere, but it's the archive
which is (was) on-production on the LAN). Problem is, I don't know how
to access it after I boot the headless server. When I had a GUI Ubuntu
installed on the SSD, I could just click my way to the other drive, then
drag-and-drop as necessary--and it was like that for so long, that the
password necessary for directly logging-in to the Ubuntu operating
system (I think it's 16.xx) installed on the SATA drive, is long forgotten.
Time was, I would have just mounted the second drive as a superuser
through a text terminal running from the headless SSD-based Ubuntu 18
version. Can I still do that, or has contemporary Ubuntu become too
"user friendly"? Otherwise, it may be a convo about resetting the
password through the same route, with the same question mark.
~Otto
clugwrench
fusepowder.com
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Server Drive Access Question
From otter · Dec 20, 2019
Hello LUGites:
I have an Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS server running headless on an x86_64
machine on my home/office network. I spent a lot of time on it this summer tinkering with a mail server
config and a web server config (yes, on the same server, which I realize
is a "no-no"). Anyway, my mailservice config was imperfect and didn't
work, and the web server didn't work although the problem might have
been the ISP, not me. Anyway, I bring up the aforementioned time investment in the server's
configuration, because one of the fixes for my current problem is to
re-install. (That is, I'd prefer not to re-install if I don't have to.) Here's the conundrum: The server is installed on a 60 gig SSD. There is
a 400 gig SATA drive also within the same tower, which contains a copy
of my audio archives (which is backed-up elsewhere, but it's the archive
which is (was) on-production on the LAN). Problem is, I don't know how
to access it after I boot the headless server. When I had a GUI Ubuntu
installed on the SSD, I could just click my way to the other drive, then
drag-and-drop as necessary--and it was like that for so long, that the
password necessary for directly logging-in to the Ubuntu operating
system (I think it's 16.xx) installed on the SATA drive, is long forgotten. Time was, I would have just mounted the second drive as a superuser
through a text terminal running from the headless SSD-based Ubuntu 18
version. Can I still do that, or has contemporary Ubuntu become too
"user friendly"? Otherwise, it may be a convo about resetting the
password through the same route, with the same question mark. ~Otto clugwrench fusepowder.com --------------------------------------------------------------------
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machine on my home/office network. I spent a lot of time on it this summer tinkering with a mail server
config and a web server config (yes, on the same server, which I realize
is a "no-no"). Anyway, my mailservice config was imperfect and didn't
work, and the web server didn't work although the problem might have
been the ISP, not me. Anyway, I bring up the aforementioned time investment in the server's
configuration, because one of the fixes for my current problem is to
re-install. (That is, I'd prefer not to re-install if I don't have to.) Here's the conundrum: The server is installed on a 60 gig SSD. There is
a 400 gig SATA drive also within the same tower, which contains a copy
of my audio archives (which is backed-up elsewhere, but it's the archive
which is (was) on-production on the LAN). Problem is, I don't know how
to access it after I boot the headless server. When I had a GUI Ubuntu
installed on the SSD, I could just click my way to the other drive, then
drag-and-drop as necessary--and it was like that for so long, that the
password necessary for directly logging-in to the Ubuntu operating
system (I think it's 16.xx) installed on the SATA drive, is long forgotten. Time was, I would have just mounted the second drive as a superuser
through a text terminal running from the headless SSD-based Ubuntu 18
version. Can I still do that, or has contemporary Ubuntu become too
"user friendly"? Otherwise, it may be a convo about resetting the
password through the same route, with the same question mark. ~Otto clugwrench fusepowder.com --------------------------------------------------------------------
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