How to Mount a New Hard Drive on Ubuntu
Display all connected hard drives.
sudo fdisk -l
Manage drive partition.
sudo fdisk /dev/sdc
- Choose
i
to display current partitions. - Choose
n
to create a new partition with type 83 (Linux). - Choose
w
to save changes and quit.
Create a mount point.
sudo mkdir /data
Edit /etc/fstab
.
sudo vim /etc/fstab
And append the following line:
/dev/sdc1 /data ext4 defaults 0 0
Create file system.
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc1
Mount partition.
sudo mount /data