Old school mounting of a USB stick in Debian

Picture this:

• an old Pentium PC, strong enough to run the latest Debian 8
• no GUI (Graphical User Interface)
• no automount of a USB stick

Let's try the "old school". Use the following commands:

• grep "SCSI removable disk" /var/log/messages
• can you find [sda] or [sdb]? I got [sdb].
• mkdir  ~/myflashdrive
• i.e. create a folder in your home directory
• su
• mount -t vfat -o rw,users /dev/sdb1  ~/myflashdrive
• exit

Now you can enter ~/myflashdrive. cd to the directory you created earlier.

When not needing the stick anymore move away from the folder ~/myflashdrive

• cd ~

Unmount your USB stick:

• su
• umount ~/myflashdrive