[SOLVED] Thumbdrive How To Read

JJJCR · 04-07-2010, 02:31 AM

hi experts, i installed Ubuntu 9.10 and i inserted a thumbdrive on one of the usb slots on my laptop upon inserting it shows:
[sdb] Assuming drive cache: Write through
[977.113519] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming cache: Write through

how to read the contents of my thumbdrive?

Do i need to mount it first or what should be the procedure?

Thanks. Newbie on linux world.

bakdong · 04-07-2010, 02:47 AM

Yes, you would normally mount it using something similar to :

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb

The /mnt/usb directory must already exist, and the sdb1 entry may change. fdisk -l (small L for List) shows useful output for this.

After that you access it through the /mnt/usb directory.

umount it before you take it out of the machine.

pejobe · 04-07-2010, 02:53 AM

$ man mount
The standard form of the mount command, is

mount -t type device dir

that is, you could try as root:

# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/memory
or
# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1

Not sure if the device: /dev/sdb1 is applicable to ubuntu

jefro · 04-07-2010, 04:08 PM

It should have mounted by default I would have thought.

Simply running the "mount" command would prove or not.

JJJCR · 04-07-2010, 08:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bakdong

Yes, you would normally mount it using something similar to :

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb

The /mnt/usb directory must already exist, and the sdb1 entry may change. fdisk -l (small L for List) shows useful output for this.

After that you access it through the /mnt/usb directory.

umount it before you take it out of the machine.

i use this command:
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb

and it works fine..

JJJCR · 04-07-2010, 08:16 PM

to unmount a usb drive would this command works:

sudo umount /dev/yourdevice

Thanks.

bakdong · 04-07-2010, 11:39 PM

Yes. or umount /mnt/usb (or the directory you mounted it at).