unsure if i have mounted second hard drive properly

[DanixVx]

hello, im not sure if this goes here, but im new to Ubuntu, and tho i have been using computers for many years, ive only just started doing anything with them.

i currently have ubuntu 10.04 and have to the best of my knowledge installed and mounted a second hard drive to home/harddrive2/

but i dont think it has worked properly, any ideas?

[sikander3786]

Welcome to Ubuntu and the forums :-)

How did you mount your 2nd HDD? What is the filesystem on it? If you open nautilus, can you find your partition under /home/harddrive2?

If the drive is formatted ext3/ext4, you need to chown it in order to gain write privileges. And for permanent mounting, see here.

http://ubuntu4beginners.blogspot.com/2011/01/permanently-mount-ext3ext4-drives-with.html

[DanixVx]

im probably going to show my beginnerness by asking what nautilus is haha.
it is ext3 as i was informed to set it to with some guide i followed, dont think i did that chown thing tho