Mounting Drives

    Published: 2022-12-03
    Updated: 2023-11-08

    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