1. Example

2. Detecting USB hard drive

After you plug in your USB device to your USB port, linux will add new block device into /dev/ directory. At this stage you are not able to use this device as the USB filesystem needs to be mouted before you are able to retrieve any data. To find out what name your block device file have you can run fdisk command:

# fdisk -l 

You will get output similar to this:

Disk /dev/sdb: 60.0 GB, 60060155904 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7301 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000b2b03

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1        7301    58645251    b  W95 FAT32

3. Creating mount point

Create directory where you want to mount your device:

mkdir /mnt/sdb1 

4. Edit /etc/fstab

To automate this process you can edit /etc/fstab file and add line similar to this:

/dev/sdb1       /mnt/sdb1           vfat    defaults        0       0 

Run mount command to mount all not yet mounted devices. Keep in mind that if you have more different USB devices in you system, device name can vary!!!

# mount -a 

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Comments (4)

• |Your IP address:67.169.101.xxx |2009-11-21 03:00:30 jonkwong  - sda/sda1
  Your mount point is /mnt/sda1
  and the device file is /dev/sda
  
  But the Edit /etc/fstab line is reversed.
  /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda
  
  jk
  Reply

• |Your IP address:115.64.70.xxx |2009-11-21 06:07:26 Lubos  - sda/sda1
  There was small problems with fstab and now it is corrected. Thanks for pointing that out !
  
  /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda vfat defaults 0 0
  
  changed to:
  
  /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat defaults 0 0
  
  
  device returned with fdisk -l command is sda ( whole disk ) and the first partition which we want to mount is sda1
  
  
  Reply

• |Your IP address:124.109.41.xxx |2010-01-16 15:17:56 bashir ahmed  - THANKS
  I thanked to ur honour for producing an amazing and beautiful with detailed clearing conception as well as for a new user like me.
  
  Thanks again with the hope and looking for new tutorials.
  
  
  with best wishes
  
  bashir ahmed
  islamabad - Pakistan
  Reply

• |Your IP address:218.248.4.xxx |2010-01-18 21:19:33 savan ....  - how to mount usb drive in fedora
  HELLO ................
  
  ANY ONE CAN TELL
  how to mount usb drive in fedora
  
  IT'S 80 GB EXTERNAL DRIBVE
  Reply

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