Accessing an external hard drive on ubuntu linux

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 10:08:48 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>disconnect the USB drive and run
>
>  sudo parted -l > /tmp/disconnected_usb_drive.log 2>&1
>
>Connect the USB drive and run
>
>  sudo parted -l > /tmp/is_connected_usb_drive.log 2>&1
>
>after that run
>
>  diff /tmp/disconnected_usb_drive.log /tmp/is_connected_usb_drive.log
>
>and copy and paste the commands + their outputs, to send all of it to
>the list. What you post should look similar to [1].
>
>If you should use Ubuntu flavour defaults and you click or double-click
>the drive icon on your desktop (click or double-click it now), then
>IIRC the drive should be mounted inside of /media/$USER/ , maybe I'm
>mistaken and it's /media/$HOSTNAME/ , but this would make less sense
>than $USER/ already does. However run
>
> sudo ls -ld /media/
> sudo ls -lA /media/
> sudo ls -lA /media/*/
>
>copy and paste the commands + the complete outputs and send it to the
>mailing list. It should look similar to [2]. I snipped the parts of the
>output, since I'm not using the "click an icon on the desktop to mount
>everything with some default mount options to some default mount point
>by some default name pattern" approach.

PS:

After you clicked or double-clicked the drive icon to mount
the drive, also run

  mount

then copy, paste and post again.