tech101

plug the USB device in – if it’s a 2.5″HD it may need to be powered externally or use used in conjunction with powered Hub.

i’m using this…

Sony MicroUSB in card reader

lets find it…

sudo blkid

output will look something like

/dev/mmcblk0p1: LABEL="RECOVERY" UUID="34A2-9F3B" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/mmcblk0p3: LABEL="SETTINGS" UUID="bd544908-ac9b-4464-8429-7d1d674f51d6" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mmcblk0p5: LABEL="boot" UUID="0314-01C1" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/mmcblk0p6: LABEL="root" UUID="e75bb594-53bb-4a13-83b9-3574ac2c838e" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="PHONE CARD" UUID="586C-669C" TYPE="vfat"

Thats mine at the bottom on /dev/sda1

next make a folder to mount it into

sudo mkdir /HDD/
sudo mkdir /HDD/usb

Change the fstab – this is so it will automatically remount on reboot

sudo nano /etc/fstab

add a line like:

/dev/sda1 /HDD/usb vfat umask=000 0 0

and give it a reboot

sudo reboot