Take a look at this post: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...1/#post4275378

It's about mounting windows drives, but it perfectly applies to your usb drive too.

Ok so it should look like this then right?


sudo [command]mount /dev/sdX /media/mountpoint

Sort of...

You need to know the device number (/dev/sd?). You can find the device number by doing this command first:

That will give you an output that lists all the partitions of all the drives and removable storage devices you have installed on your system at that time. Look for your USB drive in the list. It will look something like this:

Mine above is /dev/sdd1. Yours may be different. Anyway, once you know the device number you can run the command that you were trying to use above:

The items within the < > need to be filled with your specific information. For instance, your device number for the flash drive may be /dev/sdd1, so where you see the <?> above, replace it with d1 (leave off the < >). And where you see <mount point> that needs to be replaced with the directory that you're mounting the device in. You'll need to create that directory, if you haven't already.

The above is an example. It will create a directory (folder) within the /media directory called "usb", where you can mount your USB device.

So finally, say your device number is /dev/sdd1 (Remember, this is an example. You have to determine your actual device number by using fdisk) and the directory you're mounting it in is /media/usb, then the command would be:

That's it. The device will now be accessible to you from within your regular file manager... nautilus, dolfphin, thunar, etc. whichever one you're using on your Linux installation.

Hope that helped...

~Eric

Ok I tried all of that and it says something like directory not found

Did you follow all the steps? Did you actually create the /media/usb directory as shown? Look in /media and see if there is a directory there called "usb". If not, then you didn't create it.