How to mount a hard drive to the root directory in CentOS?

1 year ago
Jackson Davis
2 minutes

To mount the hard drive to the root directory of CentOS, you can follow these steps:

  1. First, connect the hard drive to the server and confirm that the server recognizes the hard drive. You can use the following command to list the connected hard drives:
sudo fdisk -l
  1. Locate the name of the hard drive device to be mounted, typically it will be /dev/sdX (where X is the letter identifier of the hard drive), for example, /dev/sdb.
  2. You can create a directory as a mount point by using the following command:
sudo mkdir /mnt/mydrive
  1. Mount the hard drive to the newly created directory using the following command:
sudo mount /dev/sdX /mnt/mydrive

Please replace /dev/sdX with the device name of your hard drive.

  1. Now, you can access the mounted hard drive and use it in the root directory.
  2. “If you want to automatically mount the hard drive during system startup, you need to add it to the /etc/fstab file. Use the following command to open the file:”
sudo nano /etc/fstab

Add the following lines at the end of the document:

/dev/sdX   /mnt/mydrive   ext4   defaults   0   0

Please replace /dev/sdX with the device name of your hard drive.

  1. Save and close the file.

Now, the hard drive will automatically be mounted to the root directory every time the system is started.

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