How to manually mount USB device

Manually mount USB on Redhat

1. First Plug in the USB device into the Linux Box.

2. Check the content of the file /var/log/dmesg or run the dmesg command to find what name is give to device by the sytem.It should appear as SCSI device , so the name should be similar to /vev/sda or /dev/sdb.

3.Use the fdisk -l command to determine the partion of the device. The partion could be /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1 something like that.

# fdisk -l

4. Make a mount point for the drive. Let it be /mnt/usb

# mkdir /mnt/usb

5. Mount the device with mount command. The device name will be shown from fdisk -l command, suppose it is /dev/sda1.

# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

Mount command will automatically detact the partition type and will mount the drive.

6. Just go into the directory /mnt/usb and you can access the content of the usb.