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How do I mount a USB Device (eg Flash Stick) on Linux?

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arcane7828:
found the answer off another website :)

1.  make a folder in /mnt

mkdir /mnt/usbdrive  
(you can subsitute usbdrive with anything)

2. open fstab using you favourite editor

fstab is located here:
 /etc/fstab


3. Insert following line
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive vfat noauto,user,rw 0 0
(replace "usbdrive" as required)

4. Plug in your usbdrive

5. Run the following command

mount /mnt/usbdrive

6. enter the drive

cd /mnt/usbdrive

7. Run the following command to see what is on the drive or you can just open from the icon on the desktop

ls -al




Hmmm dun think it answers the original question (was on fedora?), but I found that little tutorial on mounting usb on RH9 quite useful  =)

Ricky:
Well.. If your kernel is not well compiled to have support for USB then u cant mount it simply by above methoud ;)

arcane7828:
true,

there is  aslight bug though, I forgot to mention, once I mounted it, I can't umount it from the same terminal (it keeps saying the device is busy), but closing the original terminal and opening a new terminal solved that.

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