Apps won't see my second SSD

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New installation of Tumbleweed… Only Yast sees my second SSD and other apps don’t. The installer did detect it, and I thought was configured properly. Do I need to repartition it? confused, thanks in advance

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That’s not enough information for us to do much A.E. :stuck_out_tongue: Please show us input/output from:

  1. cat /etc/fstab
  2. parted -l
  3. lsblk -f

If you get error messages you may need to prepend sudo on retry. Also explain how and where the second SSD is connected. If internal, it needs manual setup according to where you want it to show up, and with what permissions.

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The SSD is internal in a laptop in a standard M.2 socket. Sry, refreshing myself in linux, I forget the command set to permanently mount a drive on boot.

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When someone here asks for command output, that means copy and paste the text from the terminal in which the commands were run. That image’s text is too small for me to read without considerable magnification. Anyway for the required access, you need a text editor with superuser permissions to edit /etc/fstab to add an appropriate entry for whatever filesystem(s) are in that encrypted LVM on the #2 nvme. Likely YaST could do that, but I’ve never tried.

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These commands show that:

  • your SSD nvme0p1 contains your system, is fully formatted and mounted. The mount points are all defined in the /etc/fstab file, which is why they are mounted at system startup. The lsblk command output shows this setup on the live system.
  • your second SSD nvme1p1 is perfectly well recognised (as showed in both parted and lsblk outputs), seems to have an encrypted container, but with no filesystem defined within that container…

In order to actually use your second SSD you need to:

  1. create some partition(s)/filesystem(s) on your nvme1p1 drive. You can use command-line tools like parted or others with GUI like gparted, Yast partitioner or the likes.
  2. add the created filesystem(s) as additional lines to your /etc/fstab file, so that it is mounted at startup
  3. In case of encryption, there are a few more steps to follow if you want the disk to be opened automatically

There are tons of tutorials on the web for these things.
Cheers.

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