Linux: Finding And Mounting Drives

NOTE: This example will be in the context of mounting a drive with multiple NFTS Partitions on it. Replace anything refering to windows with your context.

1. Check what your unmounted drive and its partitions are called:
   1. Its good practice to check what is already mounted: run df -h.
   2. Next use, fdisk -l. It will list all detected drives with a bunch of details including partisions.
   3. The bes it prolly lsblk. Locate your NTFS partition(s) and note down there sda<#> or sdb<#>.
2. Make directories to mount each partition to:
   • sudo mkdir /mnt/windowsboot
   • sudo mkdir /mnt/windows2
3. Commands to mount each partition to our newly created directories:
   • sudo mount /dev/sda2/ /mnt/windowsboot/
   • sudo mount /dev/sda3/ /mnt/windows2/
4. To check what you can see in the newly mounted drives:
   • ls -la /mnt/windowsboot
   • ls -la /mnt/windows2