I’ll start with a file system introduction, and then walk you through the 3 steps above.īy the way, if you are looking for an external drive, I highly recommend this one from SanDisk. In this guide, I’ll explain everything you need to know, so you don’t need any prior knowledge. Then it can be formatted with a tool like Gparted, and Raspberry Pi OS should mount the USB drive automatically after that (on Desktop versions). The first step is to properly identify the device to use (name, partition and file system). Today, I’ll show you how to format and mount a USB drive on your Raspberry Pi, whether in terminal or graphic mode. This is especially true if you are on a console-only operating system, like Raspberry Pi OS Lite. Mounting and formatting USB drives on Linux isn’t the easiest thing to do.
