Original Poster Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 hi! firstly I need to view a external HD (connected via usb) in ubuntu command line! also after that! i need to work out how to add it to my directory listings (so I can browse it) !?! any help ? _edit_ I can see it is connected using "lsusb" but i cannot access it via cd /media Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Veteran Posted July 11, 2013 Veteran Share Posted July 11, 2013 How is it formatted? "mount" should show you all available volumes. You can use "mount -a" if you have it set up in fstab already, otherwise find the volume with mount then use "mount /dev/<volume> <mountPoint>" for the simplest method. For example: mount /dev/sda1 /media/usb Note that you will need to create a directory somewhere to use as a mount point if you haven't already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikh Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 Do "sudo fdisk -l" and that will list all the drives. sda should be your boot, so whatever is mounted next, should be your ext drive. CD to it and then ls it to make sure it is. Then, to mount it to a custom mount point, if its a NTFS drive (going to assume it is) then type in the below sudo mount -t cifs /dev/diskgoeshere(i.e. sdb, sdc, etc) /media/your_mount_name man mount if you want to see what all the options do. You can set it to read only, blah blah blah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Veteran Posted July 11, 2013 Veteran Share Posted July 11, 2013 ^ cifs is for samba shares, isn't it? There's also the automount option but you have to set up a file for it first. It's not too difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikh Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 What greywold said works too. But you can also use what I said, I did forget to say create a directory to mount the drive to. ^ cifs is for samba shares, isn't it? Yes it is. And im assuming he's using SMB especially being on Windows. I havent found any good NFS support on windows. If you have please share.i use NFS via Linux and OSX but my windows desktop cant do ###### with it so i have to deal with SMB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Veteran Posted July 11, 2013 Veteran Share Posted July 11, 2013 He said it was an external drive. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikh Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 He said it was an external drive. :) i need to work out how to add it to my directory listings (so I can browse it) !?! any help ? I interpreted that to be sharing. Sorry working in IT with people confuses my brain. Everyday someone says "I cant see this in "My Computer" or "Finder" or i cant find my "directories" and its usually some kind of share. So thats my excuse and im sticking with it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Poster Posted July 13, 2013 Author Share Posted July 13, 2013 How is it formatted? "mount" should show you all available volumes. You can use "mount -a" if you have it set up in fstab already, otherwise find the volume with mount then use "mount /dev/<volume> <mountPoint>" for the simplest method. For example: mount /dev/sda1 /media/usb Note that you will need to create a directory somewhere to use as a mount point if you haven't already. ha cheers! that helped! i need to work out how to add it to my directory listings (so I can browse it) !?! any help ? I interpreted that to be sharing. Sorry working in IT with people confuses my brain. Everyday someone says "I cant see this in "My Computer" or "Finder" or i cant find my "directories" and its usually some kind of share. So thats my excuse and im sticking with it! well i suppose i did not explain my self correctly :P i was using a terminal linux (which is acting as a plex media server) and i could not see the drive when i typed "cd /media" *ls* ... I just needed to access it so I could view its contents without having to change drives :P as that would have made it difficult for the media server using the drive xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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