[SOLVED] Trouble mounting internal HDD

Bgt14 · 04-08-2018, 06:37 PM

I'm a new convert to Linux, just loaded Mint 18.3 last night and am now trying to add an 300GB HDD to my Linux desktop as a storage/data drive. The HDD was previously installed in this desktop as a D: drive when the desktop was Windows based and so it had a ntfs file system. I successfully reformatted the HDD today to ext4 but haven't figured out how to mount it as a D: drive in my Linux PC. Here is what I have done so far. Any help would be appreciated. Once again I'm brand new to Linux and not very confident yet with how things work.

Here is what I typed in terminal so far:
sudo mkdir /media/Data drive

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/Data drive

And this is what I see after typing lsblk:

Code:

NAME       MAJ:MIN     RM   SIZE      RO        TYPE        MOUNTPOINT
sdb          8:16      0    465.8G    0         disk
├─sdb2       8:18      0    1K        0         part
├─sdb5       8:21      0    8G        0         part         [SWAP]
└─sdb1       8:17      0    457.8G    0         part         /
sr0          11:0      1    1024M     0         rom  
fd0          2:0       1    4K        0         disk
sda          8:0       0    298.1G    0         disk
└─sda1       8:1       0    298.1G    0         part

When I look in the files folder, I see a floppy drive under 'Devices' (not sure why as I have a DVD drive but no floppy) but the 300GB internal HDD is not listed there. Thanks again for your help.

fatmac · 04-09-2018, 06:34 AM

Linux doesn't like spaces in file names, you may find your disk at /media/Data.

However, it would be better to automatically mount it when you boot the computer, in which case, it just needs to be added to your /etc/fstab file.

bitfuzzy · 04-09-2018, 06:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Bgt14

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/Data drive

If /media/Data drive exists try using: "sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/Data\ drive"

If it works I strongly suggest you change the name (Data-drive, Data_drive, etc) it will save you from headaches down the road

Ken

michaelk · 04-09-2018, 07:18 AM

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Code:

NAME       MAJ:MIN     RM   SIZE      RO        TYPE        MOUNTPOINT
sda          8:0       0    298.1G    0         disk
└─sda1       8:1       0    298.1G    0         part

The partition is not mounted since the mount point is blank.

Code:

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/Data drive

Running this command "as is" should of created two directories. /media/Data and drive which would be a sub-directory located in the current working directory when you executed the command. I would expect when you ran the mount command there was some error message displayed.

As stated linux does not behave the same as windows. If names have spaces you either need to use quotes or \(escape) or the preferred method, use an underscore (_) or dash as suggested above.

Bgt14 · 04-09-2018, 01:26 PM

Thank you for your help.

I removed media/Data drive and created a new directory called media/data, then I typed: sudo mount dev/sda1 /media/data and received the following message: special device dev/sda1 does not exist, even though it shows up in 'Disks'. I am going to reformat and see what happens.

Thanks
Brian

yancek · 04-09-2018, 03:15 PM

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sudo mount dev/sda1 /media/data and received the following message: special device dev/sda1 does not exist?

That is the correct and expected output of the command you entered. The post above your last one has a correct example, you need a forward slash before dev, as:

Quote:

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/data

Bgt14 · 04-10-2018, 06:54 AM

Thanks for your help. I was able to get the HDD mounted last night.