In the following image, the 16 GB Volume listed right above Other Locations is my mounted USB storage. You can also access USB through the file manager. You can access it through your media folder. In this example, I am giving access control to a user (the current user) by specifying the user id:įor NTFS, use the following command: $ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/USB The security option is mandatory and allows you to give/gain access to the USB by specifying one of the following values for permission We will use the following command in order to mount a FAT32 device: $ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/USB -o Step4: Now we shall mount the USB storage device to the mount point that we created. Note: The name of your mount point can not include spaces you can seperate the words through an underscore ‘_’. Step3: Create a mount point for your USB device through the following command: In our case it is listed as sdb1, running a FAT32 file system. Your USB device will usually be listed at the end of the output mostly as sdb-(number). Step2: Run the following command as sudo in your Terminal application in order to check the available storage devices on your system and the file system they are using: $ sudo fdisk -l Step1: Plug in the USB drive to an available port. Let us follow these steps to mount a USB drive manually to your system: The commands and steps described in this article will work on any recent Ubuntu version including Ubuntu 22.04. In this tutorial, we will explain how to manually mount and unmount a USB drive to your system. Unfortunately, this is not always the case sometimes you need to manually mount the USB drive in your system to access it. You can also access it through your system’s file manager. When you connect a USB drive to our system, it is usually mounted automatically and a directory with your user name is created under the media folder.
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