Linux Access External Devices

  1. Find out what hard disks are available by running ‘Disks’ from the Linux Mint menu (this runs ‘gnome-disks’).
  2. Create a mount point using the command ‘sudo mkdir /oldhdd’.
  3. Mount the external file system (assuming its type is ‘ext4’) using the command ‘sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/mint-vg/root /oldhdd’.
  4. You can then browse and copy files from ‘/oldhdd’ as required.
  5. When you’ve finished accessing the data on ‘/oldhdd’, you can unmount the external file system using the command ‘sudo umount -t ext4 /oldhdd’.