Wondering if anyone can help me. I have a Linux Server that moved from one department to another they would like to install some science programs via USB flash memory, and add addition western digital 500GB my book storage external hard drive to this as well USB, but the device show when in Terminal I do lsusb they are there but they are not mounting Anyone have the answer, or te script that can help me mount these device any help anyone can give me on this would be great.

Sincerely,

The Server does not automount USB disks. Only the Desktop version does.

To mount, do as root something like:

mkdir /mnt/usb
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb

This assumes that /dev/sdb1 is your 1st partition on USB drive. If in doubt run parted or fdisk /dev/sdb to determine USB drive.

and you can access your files.

If you want to automount every time, add this to the end of /etc/fstab as root:

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb vfat defaults,umask=0222,utf8=true 0 0

change the defaults,umask=0222,utf8=true to defaults,users,uid=<username>,gid=users,umask=022,utf8=true
if you wish a user to own it. (utf8=true is optional and maybe best if you copied linux files to it with a linux machine)

make sure to

chown user:usergroup /mnt/usb
chmod 755 /mnr/usb

before you mount it if you want to do this.

Extra info:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...-flash-449377/

Cheers!