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How to mount the internal hard disk


1. Connect to your server via SSH.

2. Use the fdisk -l command to see the drives in your system.

3. Then mount them using the mount /dev/hda /mnt command where /dev/hda is the drive and /mnt is
the directory it is to be mounted to.

Mount Harddrive 001

4. For servers with software raid mount /dev/md1 /mnt

5. For servers with hardware raid mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

6. Once you have mounted the root partition you can view which partitions normally associated with a drive with less /mnt/etc/mtab depending on distro.

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