Mount drives

Temporary mount a drive

Create the folder later used for mounting the drive

$ sudo mkdir /mnt/<mount_point_name>

Mount the device to the folder

$ sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt/<mount_point_name>

Permanently mount a drive

To add a fix mount point for a specific drive you have to use fstab. The fstab file is located at /etc/fstab Example content:

# <device>             <dir>         <type>    <options>             <dump> <fsck>
/dev/sda1              /             ext4      defaults,noatime      0      1
/dev/sda2              none          swap      defaults              0      0
/dev/sda3              /home         ext4      defaults,noatime      0      2

• <device> describes the block special device or remote filesystem to be mounted
• <dir> describes the mount directory
• <type> describes the file system type
• <options> describes the associated mount options
• <dump> is checked by the dump utility
• <fsck> sets the order for filesystem checks at boot time