How to mount an external drive on a Raspberry Pi
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planted Jun 08, 2021
To mount an external drive on your Pi, a few steps are needed.
- Plug in the SSD
- Check if it is connected
sudo lsblk -o UUID,NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,MODEL
- Your drive should be visible:
3.1. In my case, the SSD is formatted as exFAT, so I install the needed driver:
sudo apt install exfat-fuse
3.2. If you are using a NTFS file system, use this command:
sudo apt install ntfs-3g
- Run the following command to get the location of the disk partition:
sudo blkid
- For example,
/dev/sda1
- Create a target folder to be the mount point of the storage device. The mount point name used in this case is
mydisk. You can specify a name of your choice:
sudo mkdir /mnt/mydisk
- Mount the storage device at the mount point you created:
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/mydisk
- Verify that the storage device is mounted successfully by listing the contents:
ls /mnt/mydisk
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