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 [[http://linuxcommando.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-mount-usb-flash-drive-from.html]] [[http://linuxcommando.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-mount-usb-flash-drive-from.html]]
  
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 +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.
 +    
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