In order to mount a hard drive we need to add an entry to the file /etc/fstab. This entry will allow us to not lose our drive mounting after a system reboot.
/dev/sdb1 /mypartition ext3 defaults 0 0
Then to action the changes run the following command,
root@server:/# mount -a
Finally check that the drive is now mounted.
root@server:/# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 8.8G 3.5G 4.9G 42% /
/dev/sdb1 182G 104G 69G 61% /mypartition
Rick Donato is a Network Automation Architect/Evangelist and the founder of Packet Coders.
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