- Plug in the device.
- Check the contents of the file /var/log/dmesg to see what the system named the device. (You can use the command dmesg as well.) It should appear as a SCSI device, so the name should be similar to /dev/sda or /dev/sdb.
- Use the command fdisk -l
, replacing with the device name from /var/log/dmesg to determine the partitions on the device. Most USB flash drives and other portable storage media types have only one partition, so the output of the fdisk command will most likely be something like /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1. - Create a directory (mkdir) to serve as the drive's mount point. It is recommended to use a name that is easy to remember like /mnt/usb.
- Mount the device with the mount command. If the device was detected as /dev/sda and the fdisk command showed /dev/sda1 as your partition, the command would be:
The mount command should automatically detect the partition type and mount the drive. It can be problematic to add the mount command to the file/etc/fstab, as the device may be detected with a different name if system devices are changed or if more than one USB device is plugged in at the same time. For this reason, it is recommended to mount the device manually with the full mount command listed above instead of relying on an entry in /etc/fstab.mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
Sunday, July 6, 2008
How to manually mount a USB Drive in Redhat
Inserting a USB storage device
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Thanks for this post. it really helped me resolve a challenge. (I'm a newbie on Linux)
thanks yar..solve my problem
Thanks it really help me out.....
being a newbie, how do you check the contents of the files?
nevermind i figured it out! thanks! this helped out.
really, all i needed to do was:
mkdir /mnt/usb
mount /dev/sda1 mnt/usb
cd /mnt/usb
ls -a
in order to see the files on the usb. thanks a bunch!
Thanks, solved my problem.
Thanks you solved my problem.
Thnks it was short and precise and instinctly got what I wanted to do.
{Shotgun approach, no checking dmesg:}
ls /mnt/usb
{If no files in there:}
umount /mnt/usb
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
{To safely remove:}
udisks --unmount /dev/sdb1
udisks --detach /dev/sdb
{Note no numeral at end of 2nd command. This was tested under RedHat 6.4 as root}
thanks a lot... it realy heped me
dmesg showed as usbfs file system and device usbfs. I mounted it and also mounted but content showing 0 bytes and file names are not showing correctly. Is file system is to do anything with it.
mount -t usbfs /dev/usbfs /usb
[root@test ~]# cd /usb
[root@test usb]# ls -la
total 4
drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root 0 Sep 22 05:24 .
dr-xr-xr-x. 26 root root 4096 Sep 22 06:18 ..
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 Sep 22 05:24 001
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 Sep 22 05:24 002
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 Sep 22 05:24 003
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 Sep 22 05:24 004
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 0 Sep 22 05:24 devices
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What do you do when the USB Device is listed in fdisk -l but when trying to mount, linux states, Special device /dev/sdb4 does not exist?
Thanks, new to Linux here :-)
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