Thanks for trying to help.
I have spent three days trying to add a new hard drive to my OMV. It's installed on top of Jessie.
The problem: the drive is not "referenced" and won't show up to allow me to add it as a "shared folder"
Once I got lucky but gave it a wrong name and so tried using the system to format it "wipe" the hard drive. That did not work, nor has it ever worked. That feature maybe needs to be removed. I have deleted it's name and UUID from everywhere; fstab, OMV's configuration file, etc. But now can't get it to work again.
I can see the drive under "Physical Disks" And also under "Filesystems" but here it is not "referenced". And it does not show up under "Shared folder." It mounts on Jessie and I can write to it. I have added it manually, using the format of the other drives that were present at install, such as label, etc, in fstab but it still won't show up to be added as "shared folder" even after rebooting the machine.
There are two sections on my fstab; one for Jessie and the other for OMV. It listed in the Jessie. I pray for the day when Debian would not demand that additional hard drive require all sorts of special treatment; doing chmod 777 to be able to write, putting it in fstab manually if you want auto mount, etc. This is all unnecessary, and I do not see how it's a security feature as quite clearly the user owns the disk. Such efforts should be directed towards protecting the OS, not some external or added hard drive. I suspect that's part of the problem here, but can't be sure.
With this frustration, I updated to the latest Erasmus, but still no luck.
I appreciate greatly this software, but since it's a NAS software, one of the things that should be very easy to do is add new storage because people would need to do this all the time. It's often not the case that when building a NAS one has all the capacity needed. And even if that's the case, capacity needs change over time.
I welcome any help in fixing this problem. Thanks a lot in advance.