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mount an external drive in Ubuntu

Under Ubuntu, I am trying to mount an external hard drive .

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"fdisk -l prints the partition table of the specified physical hard drive. hence - /dev/sda1 is a partition on the first physical hard drive (/dev/sda).
Your external hard drive is most likely /dev/sdb or something like that.
sda1 - first physical hard drive - partition 1
sdb1 - second physical hard drive - partition 1
etc.

As for the filesystem type, you can see if with fdisk -l once you have the correct device node :)

You might want to read http://www.linux-tutorial.info/modules.php?name=MContent&pageid=94."