How to mount and unmount a drive in linux

This simple step by step guide will show you how to mount a new hard drive or partitions onto your Linux server

Initially you wanna check the hard drives on your system

fdisk -l

so now you now whats being seen by the system

mount /dev/partitionId /some/mounting/point

for example

mount /dev/sdb /backup

The mounting point path must already be created with proper permissions. So a more likely flow of commands would be below:

mkdir /some/mounting/point

chmod 777 /some/mounting/point

mount /dev/partitionId /some/mounting/point

for example:

mkdir /backup

chmod 777 /backup

mount /dev/sdb /backup

Now you just need to add the addon hard drive into fstab to be booted on startup as well

nano /etc/fstab

umount /dev/partitionId

This command is very easy to type wrong. It is NOT unmount. Take another closer look if thats what you saw at first. It is umount — no n here!

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