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--- mount_a_usb_flash_drive [2012/08/18 20:05] – created juckins
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+==== Mount a USB Flash Drive ====
 [[http://linuxcommando.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-mount-usb-flash-drive-from.html]]
+<code>
+Mounting a USB flash drive in GNOME (or another Linux desktop environment) is as easy as plug and play. Yet, occasionally, you need to mount one on a server which does not run X, then you must know how to do it on the command line.
+    Become root.
+    $ sudo -s
+    Plug in USB drive to a USB port.
+    Identify the correct partition name corresponding to the USB drive.
+    For my Debian system, it is sda, and partition 1.
+    $ dmesg |grep -i 'SCSI device'
+    ...
+    SCSI device sda: 3903488 512-byte hdwr sectors (1999 MB)
+    Alternatively,
+     $ grep  SCSI /var/log/messages
+    ...
+    Dec  1 11:52:26 tiger kernel: SCSI device sda: 3903488 512-byte hdwr sectors (1999 MB)
+    Mount the partition to an existing mount point (directory).
+    $ mkdir -p /mnt/myusb
+    $ mount -t vfat -o rw,users /dev/sda1 /mnt/myusb
+    users give non-root users the ability to unmount the drive.
+    You can verify the drive is indeed mounted as follows:
+     $ mount
+    You should see a line in the output that looks like:
+    /dev/sda1 on /mnt/myusb type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
+To retrieve the USB drive:
+    You must unmount the partition before physically unplugging the USB device.
+    $ umount /mnt/myusb
+    You can run the mount command again (with no argument) to verify that the volume is indeed mounted.
+    Unplug USB drive.
+</code>