WIP Mount USB storage on a Raspberry Pi
Published by Luke M on
WIP
Mounting
To mount a USB drive so that the OS can use it, first, you need to know what it is recognised as.
$ lsblk -f -p NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT /dev/sda └─/dev/sda1 ext4 Music 9ddc2e50-a9a2-4f0b-8ffe-95f6340b6a87 4.6G 31% /dev/mmcblk0 ├─/dev/mmcblk0p1 vfat boot 4AD7-B4D5 198.3M 21% /boot └─/dev/mmcblk0p2 ext4 rootfs 2887d26c-6ae7-449d-9701-c5a4018755b0 8.8G 66% /
Find your device, and remember the FSTYPE and NAME.
Then, you will need to make a mount point. You can replace myusb with anything you like.
sudo mkdir /mnt/myusb
Then, use the following commands, based on what filesystem your USB defice uses. You can tell this from the first command, lsblk -f -p. Also, replace /dev/sda1 and /mnt/myusb with what you decided before.
| Filesystem | Commands |
|---|---|
| FAT | sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/myusb -o umask=000 |
| EXT4 | sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /mnt/myusb |
| NTFS | For NTFS, you will first need to install ntfs-3g. sudo apt install ntfs-3gThen, mount with sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/myusb -o umask=000 |
| exFAT | First, install exfat-fuse. sudo apt install exfat-fuseThen, mount with sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/myusb |
Unmounting
sudo umount /mnt/myusb