Insert your USB drive and run dmesg. You should see it toward the bottom as some thing like /dev/sda1 or maybe sdb1, if you have a SATA hard drive. Then what I do is
mkdir /mnt/usb
to create a mount point or just reuse /mnt/floppy on machines that don't have a real floppy. After all that's what USB drives are for now.
Then edit /etc/fstab and add a line like this
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,users 0, 0
Again you can just reuse the /mnt/floppy entry and change /dev/floppy to your actual device.
Now you can mount your USB drive with this command
mount /mnt/usb
or
mount /mnt/floppy
unmount with
umount /mnt/usb
or
umount /mnt/floppy
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