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Mounting Drives/Partitions

  • Use gparted or gnome-disks to find (with GUI) partition name. Or use fdisk -l to do this via command line (harder to understand). N.B: devices look like /dev/sdx and partitions look like /dev/sdxY. e.g. /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 respectively.

bash mount <parition_name> <mount_point> -o uid=$UID -o gid=$GID # ... When finished, don't forget to umount <mount_point>

  • To mount part of a hard drive into the local directory (e.g. so that docker can use it without symlinks), add the following to /etc/fstab

# Bind /hdd/server to /home/server/hdd /hdd/server /home/server/hdd none defaults,bind 0 0

Similar to this is what is happening automatically when using gnome-disks