Which folder is the USB disk in Linux?

Under Linux, the U disk is under the "/media" or "/mnt" folder; in the Linux system, all devices are files, so our U disk is also a file; the U disk in the Linux system will Being mounted to a mount point, we can access the files and directories in the USB flash drive through the mount point.

#The operating environment of this tutorial: linux5.9.8 system, Dell G3 computer.

Which folder is the USB disk in Linux?

In the Linux system, the U disk will be mounted on a mount point (mount point), and the files and directories in the U disk can be accessed through the mount point. Normally, the mount point of the USB flash drive is in the /media or /mnt directory.

Using U disk under Linux system

In Linux system, all devices are files, so our U disk is also a file. The disk device is abstracted into sda files and U disk devices are abstracted into sdb files.

1. View all device files.

In the Linux file system, /dev is stored All device files.

cd /dev 　　#进入dev文件夹
ls　　　　   #查看所有的文件

The series named sda is a disk device, and the sdb series is a U disk device.

2. External device mount point

In Linux, external devices need to be mounted in the /mnt folder.

cd /mnt　　#进入/mnt文件夹
ls　　　　　#列出所有文件, 发现一个也没有
mkdir usb  #创建一个名为usb的文件夹, 今后将usb设备挂载在此文件夹上.

3. Use the mount command to mount the device.

First Check the specific name of the U disk device in the /dev folder (starting with sdb, the name of my U disk is sdb4, if there are multiple, please try one by one, mine consists of two (sdb, sdb4)).

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb4 /mnt/usb　　#将外部名为sdb4的U盘设备挂载到/mnt/usb文件夹上.
cd /mnt/usb
ls　　　　　　　#查看U盘中所有文件

Please unmount the device umount /dev/sdb4 after use.

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