Mighty Jump Drive
I mounted and formatted my USB jump drive today. A fairly minor achievement, but a good application of what I’ve been reading in the Linux Administration Handbook about adding disks. When I plugged the jump drive into the USB port, it mounted automatically. The kernel assigned the drive the device file /dev/sdc1. So I went ahead and unmounted it, as follows:
sudo umount /dev/sdc1
Then I created a new file system on the disk, ran fsck, and remounted it:
sudo /sbin/mke2fs -j /dev/sdc1
sudo /sbin/fsck -f /dev/sdc1
sudo mkdir /mnt/jump
sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/jump/
That’s that. Nothing too complicated. With the jump drive under my belt, I’m going to create a RAID 5 array with multiple LVM partitions. Just kidding.