How to use external storage devices such as USB flash drive in linux

This article introduces the relevant knowledge of "how to use USB disk and other external storage devices in linux". In the operation of actual cases, many people will encounter such a dilemma, so let the editor lead you to learn how to deal with these situations. I hope you can read it carefully and be able to achieve something!

How to use external storage devices such as USB flash drive in linux

1. Insert a flash drive

two。 View

Lsblk # View all block devices

Mine is the 256MB flash drive, which is the sdb device shown in the picture. Mountpoint is empty because it has not been mounted yet. The path corresponding to sdb should be / dev/sdb (you can check it with fdisk-l) 3. Mounting

Mkdir / mnt/usb # create a new directory to mount the flash drive mount / dev/sdb / mnt/usb # mount the flash drive to / mnt/usblsblk # check it out

The mountpoint of sdb is no longer empty, but the mount point / mnt/usb

Congratulations! You can browse the contents of the flash drive under / mnt/usb.

After using 4.umount, execute it first.

Umount / dev/sdb / mnt/usb # Uninstall lsblk # first check

Mountpoint is empty again. But you use fdisk-l to check (shows that the flash drive is still there), then you need to turn off the drive.

5. Safely shut down the drive

Udisksctl power-off-b / dev/sdb # safely shut down the drive fdisk-l # View

Now the flash drive is gone (popped up) Note: if prompted

The program 'udisksctl' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:apt install udisks2

Install udisks2 and try again

Apt install udisks2 # install udisks2

6. Unplug the flash drive

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