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I'm a beginner to Linux and I need help on how I can add/mount my 4TB hard drive. Everything I've read online says I need to partition and format the drive but I do not want to lose the files I have in it. What are the steps I can take to mount this to my server and not lose any data? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I ran the command "fdisk -l" and the drive is labeled as /dev/sdb1

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  • Just came hear to upvote your question, simply for spelling "lose" correctly. I can't remember the last time I saw that...
    – Darren
    Aug 10, 2018 at 11:43
  • What's the output of blkid /dev/sdb?
    – Eugen Rieck
    Aug 10, 2018 at 11:54
  • what kind of filesystems do you have on the disk? the command Eugen Rieck suggests will tell us that.
    – Frank Thomas
    Aug 10, 2018 at 12:13
  • @Darren LOL!..thanks! I was able to mount it with your answer below.
    – Abdiel Reyes
    Aug 10, 2018 at 13:34

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If your hard drive is formatted in a filesystem that your server will natively recognise, you should just be able to create a directory where you want to mount it (e.g. /mnt) and run the command mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt.

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