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Have a 500GB SSD attached by USB, in NTFS format made by Windows Server 2012. I want to copy the contents of a folder (and subfolders) on sda2 called myfiles to the folder /opt/myapplic/myfiles on the primary drive. currently /dev/sdb
sudo fdisk -l
shows it as /dev/sda1
So I did
sudo mkdir /media/external
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -ro /dev/sda2 /media/external
and get the error
can't find /media/external in /etc/fstab
The written mount command have some mistakes
You want to mount readonly ?
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -r /dev/sda2 /media/external
You want to mount read/write
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o rw /dev/sda2 /media/external
mount interprets -ro in the same way as -r -o (whose meaning you can look up in the manual). This is a common behaviour of command-line tools: “short” options that expect no arguments may be directly followed by other “short” options.
– David Foerster
Jun 19 '18 at 16:42
/dev/sda1why do you mount/dev/sda2? Apart from this, please edit the question and be more specific with the error you receive (just copy-paste the command you run and the whole answer you receive) and use code formatting! – velix Jun 19 '18 at 15:14