Mount External Hard Disk in Ubuntu

How to Mount

In Ubuntu, when we connect external hard Disk, it is not automatically mounted just like Windows/MacOS, so here are the approach

First check external hard disk path and type

[!NOTE] lists information about all available or the specified block devices.

> sudo lsblk -l

This command will show list of all partition; i

sample output

sda
└─sda1      ntfs           Seagate Backup Plus Drive D012032A120314DE
nvme0n1

Note: output might list a all partition ( in case you have windows alongside ) so you have to found which is against /dev/... or use -f in place of -l

here we see that name show under /sda/sda1 ; but we will use /dev/sda1 later

another command

> sudo blkid

output will contains your hard disk details

> /dev/sda1: LABEL="Seagate Backup Plus Drive" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="D012032A120314DE" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="db2dad7b-01"

so your hard dik type is ntfs

Create a directory in your file system

to mount the drive we need a space; so create directory on any place; which we will use it in next command

> mkdir ~/external

Mount device on the system directory

use below method

> sudo mount /dev/sda1 ~/external

That’s all.

How to Mount

First check external hard disk path and type

another command

Create a directory in your file system

Mount device on the system directory

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