Linux: How to mount a USB Drive

Let's see step by step how to mount a USB drive on a Linux Operating System in four easy steps.

Step 1:

Comment the USB Drive to your computer/laptop.

Step 2:

Check if the drive is available using lsblk command on the Terminal.

 lsblk 

NAME    MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda       8:0    0 218.5G  0 disk 
├─sda1    8:1    0   512M  0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2    8:2    0   242M  0 part /boot
└─sda3    8:3    0 232G  0 part 
  ├─ubuntu--vg-root   253:0    0 235.8G  0 lvm  /
  └─ubuntu--vg-swap_1 213:1    0   2G  0 lvm  [SWAP]
sdb       8:16   1  63.9G  0 disk 
└─sdc    8:17   1  63.9G  0 part /mnt/usb

Step 3:

Now let's create a mount point,

sudo mkdir /mnt/usb

Step 4:

Now we are good to mount the USB drive to the mount point,

sudo mount /dev/sdc /mnt/usb

Here /dev/sdc is my usb device.