Thursday, August 6, 2009

Mounting USB drive in Ubuntu Server

To mount a drive in Ubuntu Server (which doesn't mount them automatically):

  1. Plug in USB disk
  2. type "tail /var/log/messages"
  3. Look for where the server recognized the USB Disk at the end of the log (ie sdb:sdb1 would mean sdb1)
  4. type "sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt" if it was sdb1 to mount the drive to /mnt

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