[SOLVED] How do I access my external hd's via terminal?

[SnuffGear]

My external hd's mount when I boot the computer and they are accessible via the file manager but I can't figure out how to access them via terminal.

tom@tom-Inspiron-3847 ~ $ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 139.7G 0 part /
├─sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 372.5G 0 part
└─sda5 8:5 0 14.9G 0 part [SWAP]
sdb 8:16 0 3.7T 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 3.7T 0 part /media/tom/My Book4TB
sdc 8:32 0 2.7T 0 disk
└─sdc1 8:33 0 2.7T 0 part /media/tom/My Book3TB
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom

Thanks
ps. still a newbie when it comes to the 'terminal'.

[WharfRat]

Check the /media/user folder with ls -lh /media/$USER

[Flemur]

├─sda1 8:1 0 139.7G 0 part /

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cd /

└─sdb1 8:17 0 3.7T 0 part /media/tom/My Book4TB

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cd /media/tom/My\ Book4TB

└─sdc1 8:33 0 2.7T 0 part /media/tom/My Book3TB

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cd /media/tom/My\ Book3TB

You should probably rename "My\ Book[3,4]TB" to something without a delimiter (the space) in the name: it's almost guaranteed to cause you problems at some point. (not an OS kinda problem, but entering "cd /media/tom/My Book3TB" without the ugly backslash, or uglier quotes around it, will return

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bash: cd: /media/tom/My: No such file or directory

[SnuffGear]

Check the /media/user folder with ls -lh /media/$USER

drwxr-xr-x 8 tom tom 4.0K Oct 25 05:09 Data
drwx------ 1 tom tom 44K Apr 12 10:42 My Book3TB
drwx------ 1 tom tom 16K Apr 21 08:55 My Book4TB

[SnuffGear]

└─sdc1 8:33 0 2.7T 0 part /media/tom/My Book3TB

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cd /media/tom/My\ Book3TB

Sweet! Worked perfectly. Thanks

[WharfRat]

You can also enclose the folder location in quotes e.g., cd "/media/$USER/My Book3TB" when the path contains spaces

[Flemur]

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cd /media/tom/My\ Book3TB

Sweet! Worked perfectly. Thanks

You can try getting tricky with ... LINKS!

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ln -s "/media/tom/My Book3TB"  ~/mybook3
cd ~/mybook3

Also try

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ls -l ~/mybook3

and it should point to "/media/tom/My Book3TB"