How to Mount Storage Devices in Linux

Mounting a Rom Drive (CD/DVD/CD-RW/DVD-RW)

• Create a mount point - empty folder to load the data structure of a Storage Device.

# mkdir /media/mycd → (mount point name)
# ls /media

Mounting

• Put the CD in to ROM Drive

# mount /dev/cdrom /media/mycd
# cd /media/mycd
# ls -l

To take out the CD (Eject)
# eject
# eject -t

Mounting the FDD

• Create a mount point

# mkdir /media/myfdd → (mount point name)

Mounting

• Put the Floppy in to the FDD

# mount /dev/floppy /media/myfdd
# cd /media/myfdd
# ls -l

• Before you take the floppy out

# unmount /media/myfdd

Mounting a USB Storage Device

Once you fix the USB Drive, It will be automatically detected as a SCSI Storage Device.
Example : dev/sda

• Create a mount point

# mkdir /media/myusb → (mount point name)
# ls /media

• Mount

# mount /dev/sda1 /media/myusb
# cd /media/myusb
# ls -l

• before you unplug the USB Drive

# unmount /media/myusb