I have a USB-stick (used as an installation medium). Now I need to install a driver from a restricted folder on that device). But how do I get the device path to my USB-stick (e.g. /dev/sda3 so I can mount it using the mount command?
I have read the answer to https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/18925/how-to-mount-a-device-in-linux-beginners-confusion but fdisk -l shows nothing to me.
First plug in your USB-Stick.
Then type:
lsblk
Your output should look something like this
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 465,8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 74,5G 0 part /
├─sda2 8:2 0 390,2G 0 part /home
├─sda3 8:3 0 1K 0 part
└─sda5 8:5 0 1G 0 part [SWAP]
Now you can use the size to determine which one is your usb stick . To mount it somewhere in your home folder for example just type:
mkdir ~/UsbStick
sudo mount /dev/PATH_TO_YOUR_STICK ~/UsbStick
obviously replacing PATH_TO_YOUR_STICK with the right /dev/sdX path and ~/UsbStick with the directory you created using the mkdir command
find device path, LABEL, UUID and TYPE of block devices with help of command
sudo blkid
result will be like
/dev/sda1: UUID="XXXX" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="XXXX-XXXX" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda6: UUID="XXXX-XXXX" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda7: UUID="XXXX-XXXX" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda8: UUID="XXXX-XXXX" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="p" UUID="XXXX-XXXX" TYPE="vfat"
get your device path and fire mount command for usb-stick.
A flash drive can be connected
via USB (typically a USB stick or a memory card via a USB adapter)
the device name is the same as for SATA drives, /dev/sdx
and partitions are named /dev/sdxn
where x is the device letter and n the partition number, for example /dev/sda1
via PCI (typically a memory card in a built-in slot in a laptop)
the device name is /dev/mmcblkm
and partitions are named /dev/mmcblkmpn
where m is the device number and n the partition number, for example /dev/mmcblk0p1
lsblk
$ sudo lsblk -o model,name,fstype,size,label,mountpoint
MODEL NAME FSTYPE SIZE LABEL MOUNTPOINT
Samsung SSD 850 sda 232,9G
├─sda1 vfat 300M EFI /boot/efi
├─sda2 1M
├─sda3 ext4 100G root
└─sda4 swap 5G [SWAP]
00BEKT-00PVMT0 sdb 298,1G
├─sdb1 vfat 480M
├─sdb2 ext4 80G lubuntu-xenial64 /media/tester/lubuntu-xenial64
├─sdb3 swap 3,9G [SWAP]
├─sdb4 ext4 100G ubuntu-artful64x /
└─sdb5 ext4 113,7G ubuntu-artful64w /media/tester/ubuntu-artful64w
Extreme sdc 14,6G
├─sdc1 ntfs 6,7G usbdata /media/tester/usbdata1
├─sdc2 1M
├─sdc3 vfat 244M usbboot
├─sdc4 iso9660 948M Lubuntu 17.10 i386 /media/tester/Lubuntu 17.10 i386
└─sdc5 ext4 6,7G casper-rw /media/tester/casper-rw
mmcblk0 3,7G
├─mmcblk0p1 ntfs 661M usbdata /media/tester/usbdata
├─mmcblk0p2 1K
├─mmcblk0p3 vfat 122M usbboot /media/tester/usbboot
├─mmcblk0p4 iso9660 355M 9w-dus /media/tester/9w-dus
└─mmcblk0p5 ext4 2,6G persistence /media/tester/persistence
Edit for lsblk list: With modern versions of Ubuntu you need not use sudo, and when there are (many) snaps, and we don't want them to clutter the list, you the following command line,
lsblk -o model,name,fstype,size,label,mountpoint | grep -v " loop.*snap"
parted
$ sudo parted -ls
[sudo] password for tester:
Model: ATA Samsung SSD 850 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 250GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 316MB 315MB fat32 boot, esp
2 316MB 317MB 1049kB
3 317MB 108GB 107GB ext4 root
4 244GB 249GB 5369MB linux-swap(v1)
Model: WDC WD32 00BEKT-00PVMT0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 33,6MB 537MB 503MB fat32 EFI System Partition boot, esp
2 537MB 86,4GB 85,9GB ext4
4 86,4GB 194GB 107GB ext4
5 194GB 316GB 122GB ext4
3 316GB 320GB 4161MB linux-swap(v1)
Model: SanDisk Extreme (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 15,7GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
2 1049kB 2097kB 1049kB primary bios_grub
3 2097kB 258MB 256MB fat32 primary boot, esp
4 258MB 1252MB 994MB primary
5 1252MB 8473MB 7221MB ext2 primary
1 8473MB 15,7GB 7221MB ntfs primary msftdata
Model: SD SD04G (sd/mmc)
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 3965MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
3 2097kB 130MB 128MB primary fat32 boot
4 130MB 502MB 372MB primary
2 502MB 3272MB 2769MB extended lba
5 503MB 3272MB 2768MB logical ext2
1 3272MB 3965MB 693MB primary ntfs
What worked for me -
I have connected my Android device via USB.
To find mount point -
1) Go to Files - files application using GUI(attached image)
2) Right click on Disk whether it is USB or Phone Disk -
3) Click on Open in Terminal.
In my case, it was mounted under /run/user, and when doing lsblk no disk was added, because it was adding in the tmpfs filesystem
You can also check using df -h where tmpfs filesystem is mounted.
Easiest way to get the path of the mounted USB is open Files, right-click on the USB in the sidebar and click properties. Concatentate the parent folder entry with the name of the USB (look at topbar for name). for example: /home/user/1234-ABCD.
