Mount Drive From Terminal

Mount Drive from Terminal

Mount a drive on Ubuntu Server via the terminal. I use this for mounting external SSDs to servers as well as small systems like Raspberry Pis.

find ssd

lsblk

get ssd info (UUID)

sudo blkid /dev/sda

make mount point directory

sudo mkdir -p /media/SSDNAME

change ownership to our user

sudo chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu /media/SSDNAME

add to fstab

sudo nano /etc/fstab

add line

UUID="UUID-HERE" /media/SSDNAME ext4 defaults,auto,users,rw,nofail,noatime 0 0

mount

sudo mount -a

check

df -hT