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How to access external drives?
| Posted by dotcom1, 10-13-2016, 04:42 AM |
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I am helping a friend recover his website and the hosting provider has stated they have connected the old drive via usb to the new drive, how do I access the old server via usb?
I have access to WHM / cPanel if this helps.
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| Posted by net, 10-13-2016, 05:02 AM |
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mount it :-)
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| Posted by dotcom1, 10-13-2016, 05:13 AM |
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I was looking for some help on how to access it, simply putting - mount it doesn't help. I know how to mount drives etc on computers, but unsure how to do this on a server so thats what I was looking for help with
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| Posted by luki, 10-13-2016, 11:46 AM |
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Use the lsblk command to find out what the device is, then use the mount command to mount it. Something like:
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| Posted by Srv24x7, 10-14-2016, 02:03 AM |
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Hi,
Execute "fdisk -l " command and check if you see any new disk attached to the server.. You can then simply use the mount command to mount at the location you want..
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