how to attach pen drive, and external HDD in ubuntu?

Question

Could you please provide commands to:

• attach pen drive in Ubuntu system
• unmount command
• attach external HDD using mount command

Thanks.

Answer 1

1. Use blkid to view the list of disks and partitions. Note which one is your pendrive, example: sdc3

2. Create a folder where to mount sdc3 : mkdir /path/to/myfolder

3. Finally attach it (=mount it) mount /dev/sdc3 /path/yo/myfolder

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To "eject" umount /dev/sdc3 or umount /path/to/myfolder

Answer 2

There is enough information for you here:

• Mount - http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount
• Umount - http://linux.die.net/man/8/umount

Answer 3

1. Use lsblk to see attached drives
2. Mount with sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /dev/mnt (replace sdb1 with output of previous command)
3. Explore with ls /dev/mnt or nautilus /dev/mnt
4. Unmount with sudo umount /dev/mnt