How to Mount a new external USB HDD

[Madaswamy]

Hi All,
I'm new to Linux. Currently installed Ubuntu 9.04.
I want to mount a USB HDD to my PC.
Please help me with some commands.

Thanks,

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Does Ubuntu detect External HDD when you plug-in it?
If its a brand new HDD without any partitions then you have to create partitions first.

Just plug-in it, open Terminal and execute this

sudo fdisk -l

fdisk command will list partition structure of all available disks.

* Its small L in fdisk -l command.

Create a folder (mount_point) for each partition and execute mount command to mount partition(s).

Let say, /dev/sdb1 is first partition of USB disk and has NTFS filesystem.
Create a folder and mount partition.

sudo mkdir /media/sdb1
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 -o defaults, umask=0
ls /media/sdb1

You will have full access in that partition. Do the same for other partition, if any.

In case it doesn't work, post the output of sudo fdisk -l command here.