What is the method for mounting a new hard drive partition in Ubuntu?
To mount a new hard drive onto the system in Ubuntu, you need to follow these steps:
- To view the information of the newly added hard drive, first make sure that the system has recognized the new hard drive. You can use the command sudo fdisk -l to check the information of the existing hard drives in the system.
- To create a new partition: If the new hard drive doesn’t have any partitions yet, you will need to use a partitioning tool like fdisk or GParted to create a new partition.
- Format the new partition: After creating the new partition, use the command sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdX1 to format the new partition. Here, /dev/sdX1 is the device name of the new partition.
- Create a mount point: Create a new folder under the /mnt directory to be used as the mount point for the new hard drive. You can use the command sudo mkdir /mnt/new_drive to create it.
- Mount the new hard drive: Finally, use the command sudo mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt/new_drive to mount the new partition to the system. You can set the system to automatically mount at startup by editing the /etc/fstab file.
The above is the method to mount a newly added hard drive to the system on Ubuntu.