How to mount a USB flash memory?

A Debian Newbie · 12-21-2006, 10:13 AM

Hey!!!
It's been a LOONG time since my last post!!!!
My question is this (It's an easy one, but I don't know how to do it)

How can I mount an USB flash memory on Debian Sarge?

musicman_ace · 12-21-2006, 10:48 AM

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

I'm assuming that the USB drive was detected as sda1. Immediatley after plugging in the USB drive, type dmesg and look through the output. It will says somewhere in the text that the USB was detected as /dev/____

hemantm · 12-21-2006, 09:32 PM

Insert the Flash drive in the USB port and issue the dmesg command. The command output will normally tell you what device you are using. It could be /dev/sda or /dev/sdb etc. depending upon the number of USB devices in use or it could also be /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1 etc depending upon if you have some sort of partitioning in the device. I have observed some Flash drives formatted through M$ platforms show /dev/sda1 while those formatted with vfat through Linux show /dev/sda.

Knowing the device you can mount it using mount command as discussed by musicman_ace.
Sometimes you may need to specify the file system type using -t option with mount.

You need to have root privileges to mount a device.