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Add an external USB drive permanently to Ubuntu
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add-usb.md
  1. Attach the USB drive to computer.
  2. Note the ID of the device 
    # use lsblk to list the devices
lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0         7:0    0     4K  1 loop /snap/bare/5
loop1         7:1    0  97.7M  1 loop /snap/core/12726
sda           8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk
└─sda1        8:1    0 931.5G  0 part /media/ncdrive
mmcblk0     179:0    0  29.7G  0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1    0   256M  0 part /boot/firmware
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2    0  29.5G  0 part /

# use blkid to find the ID of the device
blkid /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1: UUID="e85c5696-c68a-41ab-9a63-98bd6e6fa1e8" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="3e976d81-01"
  3. Add the device into /etc/fstab 
    UUID=e85c5696-c68a-41ab-9a63-98bd6e6fa1e8  /media/ncdrive  ext4 defaults 0 0
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