Hello,
Is it possible to remount a USB Stick without removing and reinserting it? When I remove a USB Stick then I can't see it in the output of "lsusb" command. Any command exist to remount it?

Thank you.

you can mount /dev/whatever /<mount_point> at any time.

Not only do you not need to remove and reinsert it, you don't even need to unmount it. You can remount any mounted filesystem simply by using the mount command with the -o remount option. Of course you need to have the necessary access rights, which means either being root or applying the command to a device that is marked as user-mountable in fstab. But I assume a plug-in usb device would be so marked.

If you or your gui's unmounter(thunar does this) uses something like udisksctl power-off or the older udisks --detach to power the usb stick down, then both the /dev/sdb and the usb device entry under /sys/bus/usb will no longer exist.

Trying to reattach it by echoing the usb device identifier into /sys/bus/usb/bind doesn't work.

In the old days you had more control over the power of each usb port, but since they added auto-suspend/resume to the usb subsystem, much of that stuff no longer works.

Moral of the story, don't use clever unmounters that power things off by default, especially if you intend to remount something later. They think they're helping by powering things down, but they're not.

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Moral of the story is don't use clever software that tries to turn Linux into Windows. The Windows philosophy is to do everything for the user, because the user is assumed to be an idiot who can't be expected to do anything for herself. And so the user is never given the opportunity to learn anything about how the system works and remains the next best thing to an idiot.

Linux was supposed to be different; it was supposed to allow the user to do what he or she wants when he or she wants to do it. I don't like what it's turning into.

All I ask is an xterm, and a window manager to focus it by. ¹


I turned my back on the big desktop environments long ago.

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¹ Apologies to John Masefield

Reminds me of a signature I saw somewhere here I think. Can't recall the user. Something like this...