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Mounting manually

Mounting manually

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Mounting manually

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- [Instructor] A storage device connected to your computer is not mounted by default in a forensic copy of your Linux OS. When you're not dealing with an evidence drive and want to mount the drive, here is how you do it. First, identify the drive and the partition you want to mount. From our lesson earlier, we know the partition is /dev/sdb1. To mount it, first of all, we need to create a mount point. A mount point is a directory where you want to see the content of a drive. Let's create a new directory by typing mkdir and then the name of your mount point. And we'll call it usb_mounted. Press Enter. Type ls to see what's in the current directory. Press Enter. As you can see, now we have a new directory created, called usb_mounted. Let's see what's inside the newly created directory. Type cd and the name of the mount point, which is ./usb_mounted/. Press Enter. Type ls and press Enter. There is nothing in…

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