Mount External Storage to Linux

Mount External storage (Flash drive, SSD, HDD, ...) to Linux machine:

1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
2. CentOS
3. Cloud Linux
4. Debian
5. Ubuntu

Type of Mounting

1. NFS recommend for UNIX/Linux OS

2. CIFS recommend for Window OS

Requirements

1. Check the Library of NFS and CIFS by searching the file /sbin/mount.<type> using command

ls /sbin/mount.*

If library not found, you can download from server via yum or apt-get command

- For Red-Hat / Fedora

sudo yum install nfs.utils

sudo yum install cifs.utils

- For Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install nfs-common

2. Create Mount Point

Make directory for mount using command like this sudo mkdir /mnt/<insertfoldername> i.e.

sudo mkdir /mnt/usb1

Example: Mount NAS to Linux

(read more about NAS)

• NFS

sudo mount -t nfs 10.100.27.80:/datavolume/public /mnt/usb -o user=nutt

• CIFS

No permission

sudo mount -t cifs -o noperm //<IP Address>/<NameofShare> /mnt/<FolderyouCreated>

Mount with options: make username & password

sudo mount -t cifs //Hostname/Username -o username=username,password=password,rw,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755 /mnt

or

sudo mount -t cifs //10.100.27.80/Volume_1/ /media/usb/ -o user=nutt

or

sudo mount -t cifs //10.100.27.80/Volume_1/ /media/usb/ -o credentials=/root/.cifs.txt

where .cifs.txt file contains user & passwd, e.g.,

username=USER

password=PASSWORD

Rangsiman Ketkaew