Ubuntu – access usb hard drive through terminal

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I need to find a document which contains an specific word. The document is in my external hard drive but there are thousands of documents in it and I cannot find it. I think that using the command 'grep' I'll be able to find it, but when I try to access my external hard drive via the path cd /media/…. the terminal returns the message: "The file or directory doesn't exist". However, when I run the command 'ls' the hard drive is shown (in green) together with the other USB drives. Also, when I try to access the other usb drives there is no problem at all.

What am I doing wrong? How can I access the external hard drive?

Thank you very much in advance

Joan

Best Answer

Unmount the USB flash drive, unplug it, and do

lsusb && dmesg | tail

Plug it back in and press F3 then Enter

compare the results and identify where your flashdrive automounts to; let's say it automounts to /dev/sdc1

Then, perform this command (and change /dev/sdc1 to reflect where that USB drive automounts to)

sudo mkdir /media/usb && sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /media/usb

Then you should be able to grep the contents of /media/usb

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