a recap and this ought to be better. lsblk >orig # plug ssd in. lsblk >new comm -1 -3 -f orig new
On Thu, 28 Jul 2022, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 03:06:47PM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > I googled: "mount solid state drive" Linux, and I got very few hits > > (like 16?) which were mostly totally irrelevant. > > First of all, you don't mount a drive. You mount a file system. > > This may sound like an unimportant nit to pick, but it actually > can get very confusing when there's more than one partition > (and thus potentially more than one file system) on that drive. > > Then, from the system software side, there's no difference between > an SSD and a "traditional" hard disk. As far as you, the sysadmin, > are concerned, they both present themselves as block devices you > can partition, put file systems there, etc. > > *If* > > (a) there is a file system on your drive (perhaps in a partition > in there) > (b) your OS is set up in a way that it automatically recognises > it > > then it'll probably somehow auto-mount that file system (that > may be helpful or not). > > Now the question back to you: *what* are you trying to do? > > Cheers >
