Alternatively, you can look for the external hard drive using the following command: ls /Volumes This command will return all the mounted or unmounted drives and their partitions. The command line to view the list of all your connected drives is as follows. The first thing you would like to do with your external drive is to view it using Terminal. The next sections describe commonly used Terminal commands and free Mac data recovery software to salvage your lost data.

In that case, you can still recover your data using data recovery software. And suppose you didn’t back up your data and executed some unsafe commands that resulted in a data loss disaster. The backup ensures you can restore data in case of any data loss event. So, back up your Mac before using Terminal to avoid data loss due to the remove command's accidental use. But, Terminal won’t show any warning while executing any commands.

The app will execute the requested command immediately.

All you need to do is enter the required Terminal command, then hit Return. Terminal helps you manage your external hard drive far better than the GUI.

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