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