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This article shows how to mount a USB drive on STRM.

 

How to mount USB drive on STRM

Follow these steps to mount the USB drive on STRM

1. Login to STRM usign SSH/Console
2. Create a folder /media/flash where you will mount the USB drive #mkdir /media/flash
3. #tail -f /var/log/messages - (e.g shown below) and insert the USB drive onto USB port 

   Nov 6 09:08:51 strm-2500-1 kernel: usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using address 3
Nov 6 09:08:51 strm-2500-1 kernel: scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Nov 6 09:08:51 strm-2500-1 kernel: Vendor: PINGTEC Model: Flash Disk Rev: 2.00
Nov 6 09:08:51 strm-2500-1 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Nov 6 09:08:51 strm-2500-1 kernel: SCSI device sdb: 515584 512-byte hdwr sectors (264 MB)
Nov 6 09:08:51 strm-2500-1 kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
Nov 6 09:08:51 strm-2500-1 kernel: SCSI device sdb: 515584 512-byte hdwr sectors (264 MB)
Nov 6 09:08:51 strm-2500-1 kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
Nov 6 09:08:51 strm-2500-1 kernel: sdb: sdb1
Nov 6 09:08:51 strm-2500-1 kernel: Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

4. From the message log we can see that sdb1 is reserved for USB drive. Run this command from the CLI:

   #mount /dev/sdb1 /media/flash

   This will mount the USB drive on /media/flash

2020-12-16:Tagged article for EOL/EOE