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Linux and Your USB Flash Drive

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== Terminal Mount ==The command lsblk or LIST BLOCK DEVICES will help you determine if and where your Thumb drive is mounted.  On Ubuntu and Mint the system likes to put your flash drive under /media/username - which is kinda lame.  We can use grep to cut out clutter: lsblk|grep mediaAh there's our USB thumb drive (based an an actual system example under Linux Mint) nicole@cat$ lsblk|grep media └─sdc1                8:33  1  14.6G  0 part /media/nicole/STORE N GOAutomount will mount the thumb drive when inserted as long as it has an acceptable recognized file system.  You can manually mount it. udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdc1 When you're done you should make sure you have nothing running in the path of the file drive, including your own console cd ~And dismount the thumb drive udisksctl unmount -b /dev/sdc1=== Linux didn't auto mount my FAT32 flash drive ===Determine where the flash drive is assigned.  Create and choose a mount point and execute in console mkdir /mnt/flashdrive mount -t msdos /dev/sdc1 /mnt/flashdrive== Terminal Mount ==The command lsblk or LIST BLOCK DEVICES will help you determine if and where your Thumb drive is mounted.  On Ubuntu and Mint the system likes to put your flash drive under /media/username - which is kinda lame.  We can use grep to cut out clutter: lsblk|grep mediaAh there's our USB thumb drive (based an an actual system example under Linux Mint) nicole@cat$ lsblk|grep media └─sdc1                8:33  1  14.6G  0 part /media/nicole/STORE N GOAutomount will mount the thumb drive when inserted as long as it has an acceptable recognized file system.  You can manually mount it. udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdc1 When you're done you should make sure you have nothing running in the path of the file drive, including your own console cd ~And dismount the thumb drive udisksctl unmount -b /dev/sdc1=== Linux didn't auto mount my FAT32 flash drive ===Determine where the flash drive is assigned.  Create and choose a mount point and execute in console mkdir /mnt/flashdrive mount -t msdos /dev/sdc1 /mnt/flashdrive
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