How to mount a Harddrive ?

#1 03-13-2011, 09:32 AM

Hello...I have a external Harddrive, which is connected trough USB, how can i mount this with Unbuntu, so that i can read the data from this drive from ftp?

#2 03-13-2011, 10:36 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by uridium

Hello...I have a external Harddrive, which is connected trough USB, how can i mount this with Unbuntu, so that i can read the data from this drive from ftp?

#3 03-18-2011, 08:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by uridium

Hello...I have a external Harddrive, which is connected trough USB, how can i mount this with Unbuntu, so that i can read the data from this drive from ftp?

Open a terminal session and give this command:

fidisk -l

If you are not root give this:
sudo fdisk -l

On the screen you'll see all disks that you have connected. Usually the drives which are connected through usb are listed as /dev/sda or /dev/sdb etc
and below you can see the partions like this:
/dev/sda1
or
/dev/sdb1
assuming that drive has only one partition.

Now you have to create a local folder in which you'll mount the usb drive.
Give this command:
mkdir /mnt/myusb

Now you can mount the drive to that folder /mnt/myusb.

Give this:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/myusb

assuming that fdisk -l shows the usb drive as /dev/sda and it has only one partition.

Cheers!