Mount a SATA Drive on Turing Pi 2 with Raspberry PI Compute Modules

1. Verify Drive

lsblk

Responds with

NAME        MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda           8:0    0  1.8T  0 disk
mmcblk0     179:0    0 29.7G  0 disk 
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1    0  256M  0 part /boot
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2    0 29.5G  0 part /

Notice my SSD is named sda in this case and has no MOUNTPOINT. This is what we’re going to change.

2. Format Drive

This will wipe your drive completely, make sure you know this!

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda

Replace sda in /dev/sda to the name of the drive you want to format so we can mount it

3. Make mounting destination

mkdir -p /media/ssd-1

4. Mount the drive

sudo mount /dev/sda /media/ssd-1

Remember that:

• /dev/sda is the location of my drive that’s named sda found after we ran the lsblk command
• /media/ssd-1 is the destination I created for this drive. You can mount it anwyhere you choose but /media/ is one of the most common.

5. Verify again

lsblk

Responds with

NAME        MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda           8:0    0  1.8T  0 disk /media/ssd-1
mmcblk0     179:0    0 29.7G  0 disk 
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1    0  256M  0 part /boot
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2    0 29.5G  0 part /

Additional notes

Some posts mentioned installing nfs-common (sudo apt install nfs-common -y) will ensure the above works.