Saturday, 13 September 2014

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[ Solved ] mount an unmounted Hard disk or a Usb drive in linux easily!

Sometimes on Linux machines you cannot mount the storage devices you want. Sometimes you don't even know what is the name given to that device by Linux system. So how to find out that and How to mount a Hard disk or a USB drive using simple Linux commands.

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Mount any Hard disk or USB drive in Linux mint



First use this command & create a mount point for the HDD or USB drive.

sudo mkdir /media/newdisk

Now  use this command t find out what devices are connected and are still unmounted.

dmesg | tail

& now the final step! Use the following command to mount the HDD or USB drive.

sudo mount /dev/Your_Disk_name /media/newdisk



Wow you have done!!!

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2 comments:

  1. Wow bro thanx for the solution. I was searching it from so long time.

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  2. Good work. Linux has so many things to explore to normal people please do share these with your blog.

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