First you have to mount all "drives" (typically partitions xisting on a drive, but windows confusingly calls them drives). You can do so automatically at boot using /etc/fstab:...
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First you have to mount all "drives" (typically partitions xisting on a drive, but windows confusingly calls them drives). You can do so automatically at boot using /etc/fstab:...
In /media or wherever you like you can make a directory where you can mount your data partitions. Use /etc/fstab to mount them.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab
If you want to give users...
You can just make a general data storage directory somewhere on your system, where every user has full read and write access.