Title changed from: How to "Mount" a hard drive in Kubuntu 10.10
I recently installed some updates, which were held back during the normal apt-get update/upgrade process. Doing so, caused issues between the NVIDIA driver and the X Window System. This left me with no access to the Kubuntu GUI, KDE.
The fastest way I knew of, to regain the usability of the Kubuntu GUI, was to re-install the NVIDIA drivers. I knew right where the downloaded NVIDIA file was located, but it was on another hard drive.
No problem!
So… it really comes down to knowing how to Mount a Hard Drive in Kubuntu. All I have to do is mount the disk and move (or copy) the file.
The most common thing to be mounted is a hard drive partition. Hard drives are kept in /dev and have different names depending on what type of drive they are. – https://help.ubuntu.com/
This is exactly what I’m going to do.
To start, I want to use the fdisk partition table manipulator to display a list of disks and disk information. This helps me locate the correct disk to be mounted.
In Friday’s fdisk: Display disk information in Kubuntu 10.10 article, we talked about how to do this.
- Hit Alt+F2 on you keyboard.
- In the “Run Command” dialog, type: “konsole” and hit the [enter] key.
- Then you will type the following code:
sudo fdisk -l
then press the [enter] key. This will list the partition tables and any included information.
Doing this, I found the disk I needed to mount:
/dev/sdb1 1 60801 488384001 83 Linux
Next, I needed to create the directory where I wanted this disk to be accessible.
- Hit Alt+F2 on you keyboard.
- In the “Run Command” dialog, type: “konsole” and hit the [enter] key.
- Then you will type the following code:
sudo mkdir /media/SATA-Disk-2
then press the [enter] key. This creates a directory called “SATA-Disk-2” in the “media” directory.
Last…
Mount the disk:
- Hit Alt+F2 on you keyboard.
- In the “Run Command” dialog, type: “konsole” and hit the [enter] key.
- Then you will type the following code:
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/SATA-Disk-2
then press the [enter] key. This creates a directory called “SATA-Disk-2” in the “media” directory.
FINISHED! Now I have gained access to my NVIDIA installer..
See, this stuff ain’t hard!
Some additional information you may find helpful, can be read by going to Ubuntu Documentation and reading the Mount documentation.
