OpenSuse 11.3 Gnome | Usb Flash Drive will not mount

I have been using Linux for a while but I am more used to Debian based distributions. With distributions like Ubuntu, I have been able to get my flash drives to work instantly. However, I have no idea how to mount one in OpenSuse. I do not have much experience in configuring stuff like this because distros usually do this for me.

Thanks for the help :slight_smile:

First, you need to know how your drive is labeled by the OS. Use this to see all your drives…

fdisk -l 

You should see all your drives and be able to tell which one is the usb drive from that command.
You’ll need a mount point.

mkdir -p /media/usb/

That will create a directory to mount your usb drive in. Now just mount your drive.

mount /dev/sdX/ /media/usb/ 

Now if you do the command

df -h

you should see that your drive is mounted in /media/usb