Mounting Drives

Mounting a second hard drive

Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab

• Identify the drive. You’re typically looking for sdb but try to also use the size to confirm you found the one that you are looking for.

lsblk

• Then get the UUID for the drive, using of the two following commands. I prefer the 2nd

sudo blkid
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

• Backup fstab

cp /etc/fstab ~/

• Open fstab to edit

sudo nano /etc/fstab

• Add a line similar to the following replacing the UUID as needed

UUID=893bbb49-460a-469d-ae61-0ecf1a88c54e /home/administrator/data/    ext4    auto    0       2

• Drive should mount automatically next reboot. To mount right away use the following command

sudo mount -a

• To verify if the drive is mounted you can use lsblk again and look at the right column