External hard drive mount on linux

mounting your external hard disk in read write mode on a linux system.

1. dmesg | tail

2. /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdb1

3. /sbin/mkfs -t ext2 -j /dev/sdb1

4. mkdir /mnt/external

5. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/external

6. df -h

• Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/hda3 6.0G 5.6G

• 126M 98% /none 253M 0 253M 0% /dev/shm/dev/hda2 49G 48G

• 1003M 98% /mnt/windows/dev/sdb1 231G 33M 219G 1% /mnt/external