USB Drive mount - Virtual Machine running Ubuntu

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Here are the steps to be made in order to mount a USB drive on a Ubuntu server running into VMWare.

1 - put your USB drive in the USB port

2 - In VMWare, menu VM > Removable devices, choose your USB drive and click on Connect

3 - on the Ubuntu server terminal:

Código:


  3.1 - sudo mkdir /mnt/myusb

  3.2 - sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/myusb
alternative: sudo mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 /mnt/myusb (if you don't know the filesystem)

  3.3 - ls -la /mnt/myusb (to check if its ok)