Mount USB Disks under Debian

References

• http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/MountDisksByLabel

Using /dev/disk

Have a look at /dev/disk:

# tree /dev/disk
/dev/disk
|-- by-id
|   |-- ata-ST3250624AS-4ND2QTJB -> ../../sdb
|   |-- ata-ST3250624AS-4ND303Y7 -> ../../sda
|   |-- ata-ST3320620A_4QF00T2Q -> ../../hda
|   |-- ata-ST3320620A_4QF00T2Q-part1 -> ../../hda1
|   |-- ata-ST3320620A_4QF00T2Q-part3 -> ../../hda3
|   |-- ata-ST3320620A_4QF00T2Q-part5 -> ../../hda5
|   |-- ata-ST3320620A_4QF00T2Q-part6 -> ../../hda6
|   |-- ata-WDC_WD5000AAKS-0-WD-WCAPW1975886 -> ../../sdc
|   |-- scsi-SATA_ST3250624AS_4ND2QTJB -> ../../sdb
|   |-- scsi-SATA_ST3250624AS_4ND303Y7 -> ../../sda
|   |-- scsi-SATA_WDC_WD5000AAKS-_WD-WCAPW1975886 -> ../../sdc
|   |-- usb-WD_10EAVS_External_57442D574341553432393837393432 -> ../../sdd
|   `-- usb-WD_10EAVS_External_57442D574341553432393837393432-part1 -> ../../sdd1
|-- by-label
|   |-- My_Book -> ../../sdd1
|   `-- boot -> ../../hda1
|-- by-path
|   |-- pci-0000:00:02.1-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> ../../sdd
|   |-- pci-0000:00:02.1-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1 -> ../../sdd1
|   |-- pci-0000:00:04.0-ide-0:0 -> ../../hda
|   |-- pci-0000:00:04.0-ide-0:0-part1 -> ../../hda1
|   |-- pci-0000:00:04.0-ide-0:0-part3 -> ../../hda3
|   |-- pci-0000:00:04.0-ide-0:0-part5 -> ../../hda5
|   |-- pci-0000:00:04.0-ide-0:0-part6 -> ../../hda6
|   |-- pci-0000:00:04.0-ide-0:1 -> ../../hdb
|   |-- pci-0000:00:05.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> ../../sda
|   |-- pci-0000:00:05.0-scsi-1:0:0:0 -> ../../sdb
|   `-- pci-0000:00:05.1-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> ../../sdc
`-- by-uuid
    |-- 25395765-a67b-4ed5-8e2f-41ce50747296 -> ../../hda6
    |-- 4A25-7B24 -> ../../sdd1
    |-- 793f7ace-a967-4b8b-b6f4-e80aa04988f8 -> ../../hda1
    |-- 7c69bd27-8a89-408d-86ad-61425d2b3b32 -> ../../sdc
    |-- 99cac948-708e-47f9-a913-1c9d7683beaa -> ../../sdb
    `-- a452c275-f0fa-4120-8304-719604aa5c86 -> ../../sda

Mounted USB WD MyBook using:

 mount -t vfat /dev/sdd1 -o rw /z