Mounting & Unmounting

Get disk information 

 List information about all available block devices, including disks and their partitions.  

 lsblk -o NAME,MODEL,SIZE,ROTA,TYPE,MOUNTPOINTS 

 

 List information about disks and the partitions with UUID 

 lsblk -f 

 

  List disks with filesystems  sudo parted -l 

 

 

 Permanent mounting 

 Edit the file at  /etc/fstab 

 

 UUID=xxxxxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxx /mnt/new_drive ext4 defaults X Y 

 X = Backup order - 0 is no backup 

 Y = Check filesystem at boot - 0 is no check 

 

 after editing fstab: 

 sudo mount -a 

   

   

   

   

 Temporary mounting 

 sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sdXY /mount/path 

 X = Disk letter 

 Y = Disk partition