Accessing an external hard drive on ubuntu linux

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 10:35:52 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 10:08:48 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>  sudo parted -l > /tmp/disconnected_usb_drive.log 2>&1
>>  sudo parted -l > /tmp/is_connected_usb_drive.log 2>&1
>>  diff /tmp/disconnected_usb_drive.log /tmp/is_connected_usb_drive.log

>> sudo ls -ld /media/
>> sudo ls -lA /media/
>> sudo ls -lA /media/*/

>  mount

PPS:

If so far mount options and privileges should be ok, but the file
system shouldn't be some FAT, but maybe some EXT or HFS etc., you could
take a look at the files and directories on the drive by running

  ls -lA /media/*/*
  lsattr /media/*/*