usb connected HD - how to mount

[John Doe]

Also, use df -h to see what drives are connected and their size. You  
can find out what ubuntu called your hd by this command too. Look to  
see which one has the size of your drive.

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On Nov 18, 2008, at 5:01 AM, "Fajar Priyanto" <fajarpri at arinet.org>  
wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Alain Muls <alain.muls at telenet.be>  
> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a ubuntu installation with untangle running on top of it.
>>
>> For backup I connected over USB an external HD. I looked through  
>> the dmesg
>> but I cannot find what device represents the HD. How can I find  
>> that out and
>> permanently mount that external HD?
>>
>
> It's not in dmesg, it's sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog
> It's usually like /dev/sdb
>
> To mount it:
> sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt
>
> Please adjust sdb into the one that gets detected in your ubuntu.
>
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