usb external drive

graziano1968 · 01-16-2010, 11:30 PM

I've installed a usb external drive for backup purposes. I'm having trouble mounting the drive to set it up for backup. Any help please ?

Thank you

AleLinuxBSD · 01-17-2010, 01:10 AM

sudo fdisk -l

sudo mount /dev/[something] /mnt/[storage]

where:
[something] is the identifier of your usb drive
[storage] is a directory named storage on your /mnt

Naturally without [ and ].

jayjwa · 01-17-2010, 09:23 AM

You can cat /proc/partitions to find out all the partitions linux is knowing about at the moment. Then, you can stick the numbered ones in front of "/dev/" and mount them someplace.

cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

8 0 976762584 sda
8 1 314584798 sda1
8 2 312480315 sda2
8 3 347734957 sda3
8 4 1959930 sda4