Comments on: Mounting USB drive in Ubuntu http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/mounting-usb-drive-in-ubuntu/ Mon, 20 May 2013 04:58:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: The Most-Watched IT Questions: June 21, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/mounting-usb-drive-in-ubuntu/#comment-93450 The Most-Watched IT Questions: June 21, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:07:04 +0000 #comment-93450 [...] Mariodlg gave some steps to try if you encounter errors when mounting USB drive in Ubuntu. 6. One member is still waiting for help slipstreaming Windows Server 2003 R2 installation [...]

]]> By: mariodlg http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/mounting-usb-drive-in-ubuntu/#comment-93011 mariodlg Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:26:55 +0000 #comment-93011 I think you are asking because the system is not recognizing the usb drive.

Login as root and execute fdisk command to see your devices and look at the usb drive.

fdisk -l

Assuming your usb drive is the /dev/sdb1 device create a mount point like this

mkdir  /mnt/sdb1

Then you can mount the drive executing the following command:

mount  -t vfat /dev/sdb1  /mnt/sdb1

vfat is the filesystem of the usb drive.
Tell us if you have troubles.

Regards.

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