Mounting a FAT16 USB pen on Linux (Debian)

This is something that I was having great problems with until I found that command I needed to get it working. Here is how you do it

Insert the USB.
Type the following:
```
dmesg | tail -n 20
```
This should tell you the following things.
1. Has the USB device been detected, if so a message similar to the following should be displayed.
```
usb-storage: device found at 8
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
  Vendor:           Model: USB DISK 2.0      Rev: PMAP
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
```
2. There should also be some information about where the drive has been mounted initially, this should be something like this:
```
sde: sde1
```
If this hasn't work you should make sure you have the most current version of usbmount install:
```
apt-get install usbmount
```
This will only work if you are SUed as root. After doing this startover from step 1.
If this has worked type in the following command
```
 mount -t vfat /dev/sde1 /media/usb
```
Notice how the location to mount i.e. "/dev/sde1" is the same as the location shown in dmesg. You may choose to mount somewhere else other than "/media/usb" but this is the standard place to mount for the first USB device.
Before removing the USB pen, remember to unmount. Use the following command:
```
umount /media/usb
```
Make sure that you have left the usb directory before doing this or it will say that the drive is busy.

Page written by David R Newman (drn[at]ecs.soton.ac.uk). Last updated June 27 2018 14:44:07.