MOUNTING DRIVES ON RASBERRY Pi DEVICE

Mounting Dirves in linux rasberry pi

If you want to use flash drive and disk you need to mount the drive in linux manually to that use the following reference commands.

pi@rasberrypi ~$ cd /dev

pi@rasberry /dev$

pi@rasberry /dev$ ls

pi@rasberry /dev$ df

pi@rasberry /dev$

we need see system messages to find out if the device has made available

pi@rasberry /dev$ tail -f /var/log/messages

pi@rasberry /dev$

pi@rasberry /dev$ sudo fdisk -l

to mount this usb drive we need to make a mount point

goto /mnt

pi@rasberry /dev$ cd /mnt

pi@rasberry /mnt$

pi@rasberry /mnt$ sudo mkdir usbstick

pi@rasberry /mnt$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick

The above will mount usb drive for root user , but we need to give permissioin to user pi

we do this like this

pi@rasberry /mnt$ sudo mount -t vfat -o uid=pi,gid=pi /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick

goto the drive

pi@rasberry /mnt$ cd /mnt/usbstick

pi@rasberry /mnt/usbstick$ ls -lap

pi@rasberry /mnt$ cd /mnt

pi@rasberry /mnt$ sudo umount /mnt/usbstick

pi@rasberry /mnt$ sudo umount /dev/sda1

for different file system use the following

for windows drive use the following command

pi@rasberry /mnt$ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o uid=pi,gid=pi /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick

pi@rasberry /mnt$

for mac drives use the following mounting command

pi@rasberry /mnt$ sudo mount -t hfsplus -o uid=pi,gid=pi /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick

you need to install hfsplus support on pi linux to do that use the following command

pi@rasberry /mnt$ sudo apt-get install hfsplus hfsutil hfsprogs