Ubuntu: Mount The Drive From Command Line

To mount a drive from the command line in Ubuntu, you can use the mount command. The basic syntax is:

mount [OPTIONS] DEVICE MOUNTPOINT

Where DEVICE is the name of the device you want to mount, and MOUNTPOINT is the location where you want to mount the device.

For example, to mount a device located at /dev/sdb1 to the /mnt directory, you would run the following command:

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

Note that you need to run this command as the root user or with sudo in order to have the necessary permissions to mount a device.

If the file system on the device is not recognized by Ubuntu, you may need to specify the file system type using the -t option. For example, to mount a device formatted with the ext4 file system:

sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /mnt

You can also use the df command to see a list of mounted file systems and their corresponding mount points.

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