Steps followed for Ubuntu server

• One time creation of mount point

  • sudo mkdir /media/usb_drive1

• Check device assignment using

  • fdisk -l

  • Typically you may get something like /dev/sdc1 as the new USB drive
• Assuming the USB drive is NTFS, Mount NTFS USB drive using the command:

  • ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /media/usb_drive1

• Assuming the USB drive is FAT32:

  • mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /media/usb_drive1

• Assuming the USB drive is ext4:

  • mount /dev/sdc1 /media/usb_drive1

• To use drive

  • cd /media/usb_drive1

• To remove (unmount) USB do an

  • eject /media/usb_drive1

  • or

  • eject /dev/sdc1

• Use gparted (GUI)
  • To format new USB drive as ext4
  • Label the drive
• Create a mount location

  • mkdir /media/usb_drive1

• Confirm Block Device assignment

  • fdisk -l

  • In this example the drive is sdc1
• Mount

  • mount /dev/sdc1 /media/usb_drive1

• Change Onweership as required (from root to someone else who needs to access, such as backuppc)

  • chown -R someuser:someuser /media/usb_drive1

• chmod as required as well

  • e.g. chmod 700 /media/usb_drive1/backuppc123/

• check drive

  • ls -l /media/usb_drive1

• Issue command to get the UUID of the USB drive

  • blkid 

• Make fstab entry as

  • UUID=c7b5556e-f814-40fa-a97d-2ac3b78626d6 /media/usb_drive1 ext4  defaults        0       2

• Reboot to make sure the drive auto mounts

• To format with a cluster size of 32768
• Use the -f, –fast, -Q, –quick to avoid zeroing out sectors which can take several hours

  • mkntfs -c 32768 /dev/sdc1

• Change disk type to NTFS with fdisk

  • fdisk /dev/sdc

    • In fdisk, enter: t - type, 1 - first partition, 7 - ntfs, w - write to disk
• Verify

  • fdisk -l /dev/sdc

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/USB

Use command dmesg to check log on usb drive insertion

lsusb to list usb devices