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Systems - Media Server - Hard Drive setup

Identify the Drives

List the available drives: 

lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,SIZE,UUID

returns: 

sdb         ext4        /media/peter/Disk1                                 14.6T a52f1b89-9387-4ece-b7da-891ef2a2c472   0x5000c500c4922748
sdc         ext4        /media/peter/Disk2                                 14.6T 94b0eb56-4b78-4fa0-a554-5b46e78347e6   0x5000c500c52d2756
sdd         ext4        /media/peter/Disk01                                 7.3T a554dc52-3eb3-4296-8de9-1670511e2767   WDC_WD80EFZX-68UW8N0_R6GYZ8RY
sde         ext4        /media/peter/Backup1                                7.3T 444820cc-4ac0-4d28-8777-eda505cf1ea2   WDC_WD80EFAX-68KNBN0_VAJB0YAL
sdf         ext4        /media/peter/Games1                                 7.3T 4f8bda34-638d-40b7-8c3c-43eb0833e87f   WDC_WD80EFZX-68UW8N0_R6GZ55XY
sdg                                                                         7.3T                                        WDC_WD80EFZX-68UW8N0_VJHD6AMX
└─sdg1      ext4        /media/peter/Disk10                                 7.3T 1e427d63-683a-4802-8028-471a55ae73a6   WDC_WD80EFZX-68UW8N0_VJHD6AMX-part1
sdh         ext4        /media/peter/Disk05e                               14.6T 8bf14002-79b8-421b-8476-9fcd476db878   ST16000NM000J-2TW103_ZR51SQ0D
sdi         ext4        /media/peter/Disk06e                               14.6T 0e8f6d23-1fe1-4a93-93e4-fe04b1cc64fa   ST16000NM001G-2KK103_ZL2HZQZX
sdj         ext4        /media/peter/Disk07e                               14.6T f8bb3cd4-c8cf-4a58-967d-787889fc241e   ST16000NM000J-2TW103_ZR703EYB
sdk         ext4        /media/peter/Disk08e                               14.6T 931e2d26-7a8c-4cd6-8230-188ee9cd5e57   ST16000NM001G-2KK103_ZL2HN378
sdl         ext4        /media/peter/Disk01e                               14.6T 421a2ae3-b3b4-4590-bab0-b1d1d3f4b57f   ST16000NM001G-2KK103_ZL2JH6CN
sdm         ext4        /media/peter/Disk02e                               14.6T 2482a9a7-a6ba-44f2-a5be-3fd08929bddf   ST16000NM000G-2KH103_ZL29RRKD
sdn         ext4        /media/peter/Disk03e                               14.6T 2901c4ee-ec8d-426a-9818-0aa76c36937e   ST16000NM000J-2TW103_ZR52QJV5
sdo         ext4        /media/peter/Disk04e                               14.6T dadc4151-b7e7-47dc-963a-be77ba82103c   ST16000NM000J-2TW103_ZR70WLTL

and 

ls -la /dev/disk/by-id

returns: 

...
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    9 Apr 20 14:59 ata-ST16000NM000G-2KH103_ZL29RRKD -> ../../sdm
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    9 Apr 20 14:59 ata-ST16000NM000J-2TW103_ZR51SQ0D -> ../../sdh
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    9 Apr 20 14:59 ata-ST16000NM000J-2TW103_ZR52QJV5 -> ../../sdn
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    9 Apr 20 14:59 ata-ST16000NM000J-2TW103_ZR703EYB -> ../../sdj
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    9 Apr 20 14:59 ata-ST16000NM000J-2TW103_ZR70WLTL -> ../../sdo
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    9 Apr 20 14:58 ata-ST16000NM001G-2KK103_ZL23FY8P -> ../../sdb
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    9 Apr 20 14:58 ata-ST16000NM001G-2KK103_ZL24PY4R -> ../../sdc
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    9 Apr 20 14:59 ata-ST16000NM001G-2KK103_ZL2HN378 -> ../../sdk
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    9 Apr 20 14:59 ata-ST16000NM001G-2KK103_ZL2HZQZX -> ../../sdi
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    9 Apr 20 14:59 ata-ST16000NM001G-2KK103_ZL2JH6CN -> ../../sdl
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    9 May  5 09:18 ata-WDC_WD80EFAX-68KNBN0_VAJB0YAL -> ../../sde
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    9 May  5 09:18 ata-WDC_WD80EFZX-68UW8N0_R6GYZ8RY -> ../../sdd
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    9 May  5 09:18 ata-WDC_WD80EFZX-68UW8N0_R6GZ55XY -> ../../sdf
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    9 May  5 09:18 ata-WDC_WD80EFZX-68UW8N0_VJHD6AMX -> ../../sdg
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   10 May  5 09:18 ata-WDC_WD80EFZX-68UW8N0_VJHD6AMX-part1 -> ../../sdg1

Create Mount Points

For example, if the drives are /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1, then create mount points: 

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/disk1 /mnt/disk2

Manually Mount the Drives

sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/disk1
sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/disk2

NOTE: Replace ext4 with your actual filesystem type, if this differs.