How to Mount a Drive in Linux

To mount a disk on boot, you will need to enter the disk/partition information in the fstab file. Before this, you should have the uuid of the partition.

1. Create the mount point

Create the mount point (directory) for the new partition. This is often done in /mnt or /media

mkdir /media/partition_name

2. Determine Drive to mount

Using UUID

Get the uuid of the desired partition by listing all partition uuids using

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

Example Output:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 5 07:36 42c03f8b-35e1-40bd-8661-e59606375863 -> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 5 07:36 77c1e034-8557-4d86-9bb4-8cc41c45f379 -> ../../sda6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 5 07:36 bc733608-976a-4982-8849-2445c6167385 -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 5 07:36 c443bb27-7ffb-4308-8727-f3504d904c0f -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 5 07:36 f10dee4e-d3af-4703-91c9-3b9cf24a7f81 -> ../../sda1

Use Drive notation

ls -l /dev/sd*

Example Output:

brw-rw—- 1 root disk 8, 0 Jan 5 07:36 /dev/sda
brw-rw—- 1 root disk 8, 1 Jan 5 07:36 /dev/sda1
brw-rw—- 1 root disk 8, 2 Jan 5 07:36 /dev/sda2
brw-rw—- 1 root disk 8, 3 Jan 5 07:36 /dev/sda3
brw-rw—- 1 root disk 8, 16 Jan 5 07:36 /dev/sdb
brw-rw—- 1 root disk 8, 17 Jan 5 07:36 /dev/sdb1

3. Add to fstab

Locate the partition and uuid you want to mount and add it to /etc/fstab

nano /etc/fstab

UUID= 42c03f8b-35e1-40bd-8661-e59606375863 /media/partition_name ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 

or

/dev/sdb1 /media/partition_name ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 

example:

/dev/sdb1               /mnt/ssd                ext2    defaults                0 0

4. Manual Mount

Manually mount the partition until the next reboot

mount /dev/sda5 /media/partition_name