24.13 Mounting Disks
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Before a disk can be mounted it needs to be formatted. See Section 24.12.
A disk can then be mounted onto the file system of the computer so that its contents can easily be accessed. A quick way to do so is to simply mount the device onto the temporary mount point:
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
ls /mnt
To mount the disk on boot and into a fixed location we will give the
disk a name, like sabrina
. We then create a mount point for the
disk:
sudo mkdir /media/sabrina
Add an entry into /etc/fstab
UUID=767f41ad-5b32-310f-aa89-54a24e26687 /media/sabrian ext4 defaults,errors=remount-ro,noatime 0 0
The UUID comes from:
sudo -i blkid | grep sdb1
We can manually mount the disk using:
sudo mount /media/sabrina
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