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When I plug in my flash drive, it gets auto-mounted. If I right click on the drive and select 'eject', then it's unmounted.

Now, I want to remount the drive in Terminal. How do I do this?

I've been Googling this for 30 minutes and I haven't found anything that works.

I've read to run 'sudo fdisk -l' but the USB drive isn't there. lsusb gives me nothing either.

I want to make this clear: I know that if I plug the flash drive in again, that I can run mount to find where it is. However, what I really want to know is, if the drive is still plugged in and was just 'ejected', how do I then remount it from Terminal without physically touching the flash drive?

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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Korgan Rivera
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Plug the drive back in, go to terminal and execute mount. That will show you all mounted devices and where they're mounted. You should see something like:

/dev/sdb1 mounted on MOUNTPOINT

Eject from GUI, then execute mount again from terminal and compare with the output from the 1st mount run to confirm which device it was.

To mount for example /dev/sdb1 to mountpoint /mnt, from terminal execute:

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

Another example mounts an NTFS formatted /dev/sdb1 as read-only at /mnt:

mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/sdb1 /mnt
Joseph R.
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Rob Bryerton
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    Thanks, but what I want to know is, how do I find the flash drive if the flash drive is still plugged in and was just unmounted? I know how to mount it once it's plugged in. I'll edit my question to make this clearer. – Korgan Rivera Jul 28 '13 at 20:34