How Do I Mount a Drive in Linux Mint?

How Do I Mount a Drive in Linux Mint?
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How do I mount a hard drive in Linux Mint?

Go to Disks from the start menu, select the partition you want to mount, press the “more actions” button, then “edit mount options”, uncheck the “automatic mount options” and make sure that “mount at startup” is ticked, press OK and restart the system.

What is the command to mount a drive in Linux?

To manually mount a USB device, perform the following steps:

  1. Create the mount point: sudo mkdir -p /media/usb.
  2. Assuming that the USB drive uses the /dev/sdd1 device you can mount it to /media/usb directory by typing: sudo mount /dev/sdd1 /media/usb.
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