How to Mount a Flash Drive in Fedora

Manually mount a flash drive from a command-line terminal.

Linux reads flash drives as regular storage devices, the same as hard drives. For all Linux computers, including those running Fedora, there is a common protocol for manually mounting drives through the command-line terminal. This can be used any time your flash drive is not automatically recognized by your operating system.

Instructions

1. Insert the flash drive. If it is not automatically mounted or if an icon for the drive does not appear on your desktop, continue to Step 2.

2. Open a command-line terminal from the taskbar. Gain root privileges with the following command:

   #su root

3. Create a new directory and mount the flash drive onto that directory with the following command:

   #mkdir /mnt/flashdrive

   #mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flashdrive

4. Confirm that the directory is indeed synced with the contents of your flash drive with the following command:

   #ls /mnt/flashdrive

References

• Cool Solutions: Mount a USB Flash Drive