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I'm running alpine 3.2.0 installed on a thumb drive. once I boot my linux box using the usb, I can't see my hard disks, despite having two of them installed. when I run df -h or df -a, i can't see where they are mounted in the file system. Please note that am booting from a flash drive. Please help

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    Please provide the output of 'df -h' and 'sudo fdisk -l'
    – Soren A
    Nov 23, 2016 at 14:18
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    You have 2 HDs /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. On each there are 2 partitions, so you have /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2, all marked as linux partitions.
    – Soren A
    Nov 23, 2016 at 18:55
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    This is not about Ubuntu. Moreover, you should post text, not pictures for terminal output.
    – Andrea Lazzarotto
    Nov 23, 2016 at 23:08
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    'sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt' to mount and 'sudo umount /mnt' to unmount the partition again.
    – Soren A
    Nov 24, 2016 at 8:39

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df shows mounted filesystems, not hard disks. To see your hard disks, use parted, fdisk or lsblk. Once you have identified

  • your disks,
  • their partitions, and
  • the filesystems in the partitions

you may mount the filesystems somewhere (that is, mount each filesystem on a directory) and then df will show them. It is not usual for a Linux system to mount hard-disk-based filesystems automatically.

Edit: See Mercy Flicker's comment for the complete details of how the problem was solved.

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  • Thanks for your help. I tried all your suggestions and I added some to them and it worked. i had to first make a file system to each of the hard disks by running mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 and secondly ran mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt. This got my mounting working. I had also to edit my fstab file to make them mount automatic at bootup by adding my hardisks to the fstab file.
    – Mercy Flicker
    Dec 14, 2016 at 9:18

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