How to mount usb drive

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After you plug in your USB device to your USB port, Linux system adds a new block device into /dev/ directory. At this stage, you are not able to use this device as the USB filesystem needs to be mouted before you can retrieve or store any data. To find out what name your block device file have you can run fdisk -l command.

root@iplog:/media# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 7458 MB, 7820279808 bytes, 15273984 sectors
238656 cylinders, 4 heads, 16 sectors/track
Units: cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes

Device       Boot StartCHS    EndCHS        StartLBA     EndLBA    Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/mmcblk0p1    0,1,1       1023,3,16           16    3818495    3818480 1864M 83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p2    1023,3,16   1023,3,16      3818496    7636991    3818496 1864M 83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p3    1023,3,16   1023,3,16      7636992   11455487    3818496 1864M 83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p4    1023,3,16   1023,3,16     11455488   15273983    3818496 1864M 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sda: 3860 MB, 4047503360 bytes, 7905280 sectors
492 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units: cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device  Boot StartCHS    EndCHS        StartLBA     EndLBA    Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sda1    0,14,31     491,254,63         912    7905279    7904368 3859M  c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical end:
     phys=(491,254,63) logical=(492,20,40)

After you plug in your USB device to your IPLOG unit, It will add new block device into /dev/ directory. To verify it, use the following command.
root@iplog:~# fdisk -l

USB will start with name SDA