I use the VirtualBox UI to add a second virtual disk (belonging another VM) to my Xubuntu 18.04 guest. After I boot the guest I see a desktop icon named "20 GB Volume" with the tooltip "Removable Volume. Not mounted yet.". At this point df
shows me
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 1989308 0 1989308 0% /dev
tmpfs 403956 1044 402912 1% /run
/dev/sda1 61663020 6819780 51681232 12% /
tmpfs 2019768 0 2019768 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 2019768 0 2019768 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 403952 12 403940 1% /run/user/1000
Double-clicking the desktop icon mounts the volume, after which it shows up in the df
output as /dev/sdb1
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 1989308 0 1989308 0% /dev
tmpfs 403956 1048 402908 1% /run
/dev/sda1 61663020 6819456 51681556 12% /
tmpfs 2019768 0 2019768 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 2019768 0 2019768 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 403952 12 403940 1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sdb1 19478204 9814968 8650756 54% /media/gord/4554a2b5-26d3-4568-8127-41418ca654f4
My question: If I wanted to mount the volume on a guest running Ubuntu Server (no GUI) how would I do it without Xfce available to do the magic for me? I assume that it would involve the mount
command, but
- where would I find the necessary information about the second virtual disk in the guest OS environment, and
- what would the
mount
command look like?
fstab
related answers on the forum. – Alvin Liang Dec 10 '18 at 07:23lsblk
is the magic word I was looking for. – Gord Thompson Dec 12 '18 at 22:32