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Mount Attached Drive in Linux

find the drive location​

If you want to mount the attached drive, you can find the attached drive name by running lsblk or sudo fdisk -l command. The output will look like:

lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
# ... others
sdb      8:16   0 232.9G  0 disk
├─sdb1   8:17   0     1K  0 part
└─sdb5   8:21   0 232.9G  0 part /media/devmon/sdb5-scsi-1USB_3.0_012345

In this case, the attached drive name is sdb5.

Create a directory to mount the attached drive​

sudo mkdir /mnt/attached-drive

find the detailed information of the attached drive​

sudo blkid /dev/sdb5

Output will look like:

/dev/sdb5: UUID="b1b1b1b1-b1b1-b1b1-b1b1-b1b1b1b1b1b1" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="fb43759d-05"
  1. Edit the /etc/fstab file:

Then exec sudo vim /etc/fstab and add the following line:

/etc/fstab
proc            /proc           proc    defaults          0       0
# ... others
PARTUUID=fb43759d-05  /mnt/attached-drive ext4 defaults 0 0
# a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here
#   use  dphys-swapfile swap[on|off]  for that