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  sh hal-find-by-property.sh

  sh hal-find-by-property.sh

The output will tell you the device, volume label, file system type, and the uid. You have to use the device in the mount command and you will need a directory to mount the device to. Note the directory has to exist for the command to process.

The output will tell you the device, volume label, file system type, and the uid. If this is a new drive you have to run fdisk to create a partition and format the drive before you can mount it.

 

To create a partition with fdisk, use the device output from the hal-find-by-property.sh script as the argument to the fdisk command. If the output from hal-find-by-property.sh is /dev/sdb1 the fdisk command will be

 

You can list the partitions on the disk by entering the p command when prompted. It's a good idea to see what partitions exist before you start. If the drive is pre-formatted for fat or ntfs it's good practice to delete the factory partitions.

 

If this is a new drive, you will need to create a new primary partition. Do this by entering an n at the prompt followed by p for primary. Enter a partition number of 1. fdisk will then ask for the first and last sector. If you are formatting a new disk, hit enter at both questions. This will use the entire disk. When the process ends, hit p to verify you have the disk setup like you want it. Once you are happy with the partition table, hit w to write the partition table and exit fdisk.

 

You now need to format the drive. ext4 is recommended. To format the drive with an ext4 filesystem located at /dev/sdb1 and give it a label of usbdrive, issue the following command:

To check a mount point exists and mount

To check a mount point exists and mount