Manually mounting a drive in linux

Examples where sdb1 = target partion to be mounted

For FAT32

use: sudo mount -t vfat -o umask=ooo /dev/sdb1 /pathtomountpoint

sudo mount -t ntfs -o umask=0222 /dev/sdb1 /pathtomountpoint

write access

# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/<xxx> /pathtomountpoint