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I recently I installed Ubuntu, but I am unable to mount the disk on it. I run the following command to mount the disk.

sudo mount /dev/sda7 /disk20

mount: /disk20: mount point does not exist.

Results of sudo fdisk -l :

/dev/sda6       1064134656 1073895423   9760768   4.7G 82 Linux swap / Solaris 
/dev/sda7       1024002048 1064132607  40130560  19.1G 83 Linux  
/dev/sda8       1073897472 1159673855  85776384  40.9G 83 Linux   
/dev/sda9       1159675904 1257330687  97654784  46.6G 83 Linux  
/dev/sda10      1257332736 1354985471  97652736  46.6G 83 Linux   
/dev/sda11      1354987520 1550305279 195317760  93.1G 83 Linux
karel
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rax
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You are experiencing this problem because you are trying to mount the volume to a directory that does not exist. In order to be able to mount there, you must create the directory first. So in the case of your desired mountpoint, /disk20, you would run this command:

sudo mkdir -p /disk20

This will create the directory. Now you can mount the partition as you did before:

sudo mount /dev/sda7 /disk20

Do note, however, that creating your own directories in the root (/) folder is generally not recommended (although shouldn't be harmful). Instead of mounting to /disk20, it would be more ideal to mount to a mountpoint that is designed for mounting partitions. One example of this is the /mnt directory. Assuming this directory is empty, run:

sudo mount /dev/sda7 /mnt

Another advantage of mounting to /mnt is that the directory already exists so you won't need to manually create it with mkdir -p beforehand.

Daniel M.
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In order to read & write to your disk create a directory at /mnt/myDisk. Set up the user mode to read an write:

sudo chmod 666 /mnt/myDisk

then 

sudo mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/myDisk

Should work now

kanehekili
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