I can't find drives that are already mounted

subject050000

4/14/24, 1:47 PM

First I created 2 new partition tables with gparted each one for my two drives. Following this I ran sudo mkdir /hdd as well as sudo mkdir /ssd. Afterwards I ran sudo vim /etc/fstab and added two new lines of code.

/dev/sdb1    /hdd    ext4    defaults    0    0
/dev/sdc1    /ssd    ext4    defaults    0    0

At last after I saved vim I mounted both of them.

sudo mount /hdd
sudo mount /ssd

I checked with gparted and saw that both drives where mounted at the right point so now I looked into my files and didnt find any of them. So what can I do to fix this?

As I see there is confusion I will specify my problem.

My question is why after I mounted the drives aren't there the drives.

There should be three drives but there is only one which is my installation medium for ubuntu.

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subject050000

4/14/24, 5:04 PM

it wasn't about the files that I was expecting to find but the drives themself. I can't find the drives and a way to open them even though after I mounted them they should be accessible to me.

mook765

4/14/24, 5:15 PM

How did you create the partition tables? Creating partition tables will not create partitions. Did you create partitions? New partitions will not have files, so I don't understand why you are missing your files. Which files are you missing?

sudodus

4/14/24, 5:33 PM

@subject050000, Please edit your question to show also what is displayed by the terminal command `df`.

sudodus

4/14/24, 5:39 PM

+1 to mook's advice. I would add that you should specify the partitions by the UUID of the file systems instead of `/dev/sdb1` etc, because those device addresses are allocated automatically and may change without warning, while the UUIDs are stable (until you create a new file system).

mook765

4/14/24, 6:11 PM

@subject050000 I converted my last comment into an answer since it solved your problem. Please don't forget to [accept this answer](https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/1137/how-do-i-accept-an-answer).

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mook765

4/14/24, 6:05 PM

You will see the contents of this partitions when you browse to the mountpoint (/ssd, /hdd) in your filemanager.

If you want the filemanager to show this partitions as drives like in your picture, mount them in subdirectories of /media, for example /media/ssd, /media/hdd.

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