How to mount a USB flash drive on Raspberry Pi (or any other linux device) First we need to find out where our system locates the device. With the USB device not plugged in, type… tail -f /var/log/messages Then plug in your USB device and, looking in the new lines which appear, make a note of the ID – it will be something like sda1, sdb1, sda2, sdb2 etc. Then CTRL-C To stop the tail command. In this case the usb stick id is sda1. That means the device is located in /dev/sda1. Next, we […more…]