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

2 years ago
Olivia Parker
1 minute

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

  1. Firstly, ensure that the hard drive is correctly connected to the computer and has been recognized.
  2. List partitions with administrator privileges
  3. The device known as /dev/sda
  4. The device driver for secondary storage device B.
  5. Create a new directory named mydisk in the /mnt directory using superuser privileges.
  6. The directory located at /mnt/mydisk
  7. Please mount the /dev/sdX device to the /mnt/mydisk directory using sudo.
  8. hard drive partition
  9. The device named /dev/sda
  10. Display only the line containing “/mnt/mydisk” on the mounted filesystem.

To automatically mount the hard drive to the root directory every time the system starts, you can add the mounting command to the /etc/fstab file. You can open the file using the following command:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

Add the following lines at the end of the file:

/dev/sdX  /mnt/mydisk  ext4  defaults  0  0

Replace /dev/sdX with the name of your hard drive device, and modify the file system type and other options as needed. Save and close the file.

After restarting the system, the hard drive should automatically mount to the root directory.

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