Linux + noob + disks?

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Oh great Linuxers, tell a noob how to live in your beautiful system (and how you live in it). I decided to become like you in quarantine, I installed Monjaro KDE, but it does not see 2 hard drives out of 4.

This is what a 2tb screw looks like, which is immediately picked up and is visible in the Devices section of Dolphin:


This is what a 4tb screw looks like, which does not appear in Devices, even if you kill all partitions and create a new partition in Linux:


What is the difference between them? What explains this? This is fine? Is this often the case in Linux? What to do?

And a bunch of other dumb questions:

• By reformatting my 4 terabyte in Linux, I was able to mute it. It never appeared in the Devices list, but it did appear at /run/media/username/A48C331A8C32E688, so I was able to attach it to the dolphin's Places section. But is this ugliness? Or is it the norm? Do you do that?
  
• Entering Windows and then returning to Linux, I saw that Windows created its own 17-megabyte microsoft reserved partition on the 4tb screw. What for? On 2tb, she doesn't do that.
  
• There is also a third screw that, when trying to open it, causes an error in Dolphin: An error occurred while accessing 'Home', the system responded: The requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/sdd2 at /run/media/nochnoy/CITADEL: Unknow error when mounting /dev/sdd2 - is this normal? Does this happen often?
  
• Why is there so much hype from the very start, with the most basic things - screws? How do you live with it? I thought Linux was an adult and polished system. Is it going to continue like this?
  

Answer 1

Armenian Radio , here I am.
I didn’t understand at all what the essence of the claims to the sections was and what confuses the TS.

But is this ugliness? Or is it the norm? Do you do that?

Yes, ugly, but this is Linux. The devil knows that he did not appear there, see the output of fdisk -l , this is a Gnome utility, a curve, like everything in Gnome.

Entering Windows and then returning to Linux, I saw that Windows created its own 17-megabyte microsoft reserved partition on the 4tb screw. What for? On 2tb, she doesn't do that.

An interesting question for Google. I don't know the answer.

There is also a third screw that, when trying to open it, causes an error in Dolphin: An error occurred while accessing 'Home', the system responded: The requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/sdd2 at /run/media/nochnoy/CITADEL: Unknow error when mounting /dev/sdd2 - is this normal? Does this happen often?

Of course not. What is the FS? If you run sudo mount /dev/sdd2 /mnt in the console , what will it show?

Why is there so much hype from the very start, with the most basic things - screws?

You haven't seen hemorrhoids, lol. It's baby talk on the lawn.

I thought Linux was an adult and polished system.

Linux is not ready for the desktop, never has been, and probably never will be. Amen. On the server - yes, but on the desktop it's the bottom.

Is it going to continue like this?

No, it will only get worse.