Mounting Linux partitions

Step 1.

sudo fdisk -l

This command will list down all devices (drives) connected to your machine

Sample output can be as follows

Disk /dev/sda: 20.0 GB, 20020396544 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sda1 * 1 1275 10241406 83 Linux

/dev/sda2 1276 2434 9309667+ 5 Extended

/dev/sda5 1276 2388 8940141 83 Linux

/dev/sda6 2389 2434 369463+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Step 2.

Install partion creator program in ubuntu

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install gparted gksu

gksudo gparted

Step 3.

sudo mkdir /storage

This will create a directory where partition will be mounted

Step 4.

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

List down uuids for all drive’s partitions.

Sample output can be as follows

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-11-04 17:05 069427AD94279E65 -> ../../sda1

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-11-04 17:05 82b11ae0-e4c9-4e95-9518-06a337659dfb -> ../../sda5

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-11-04 17:05 EA902C94902C6971 -> ../../sda7

Step 5.

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_backup

Take back up of original file

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Edit original file and add following line to that.

Step 6

sudo mount -a

Mount all partitions

Step 7

sudo chown -R username:usergroup /storage

sudo chmod -R 755 /storage

UUID=82b11ae0-e4c9-4e95-9518-06a337659dfb /storage ext3 defaults 0 0