How do I tell where my thumb drive is mounted?

[tashirosgt]

How do I tell where in the filesystem my thumb drive is mounted ? (given that I accidentally delete it from the "places" in the file browser.)

In the old days, one could consult /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab. I gather that's terribly obsolete.

[stevea]

/proc/mounts if it's mounted

[Gareth Jones]

Run "mount" in a terminal.

Most likely it'll be somewhere in /media.

(mtab is a symbolic link to /proc/mounts, and fstab is used for internal drives, not removable ones.)

Gareth

[Dan]

Graphically, open the "Computer" icon and look at the items displayed. If your thumb drive has been detected, it will be there, listed under the volume name. Unless you mounted it yourself and specified otherwise, it will be mounted in /media/*****. To tell if a drive listed in the computer window is actively mounted, look for the eject symbol next to its entry in the info pane.

[roMancer]

1. unplug device
2. open shell, use 'tail -f /var/log/messages'
3. re-plug device
4. watch output of 'tail ...' for something like 'sdf: sdf1'
5. assuming 'sdf1' was shown, try 'mount | grep sdf1' - if the device is mounted, it should show the corresponding line from 'mount'

if the device is not (automatically) mounted, use something like 'mkdir /mnt/usbstick ; mount /dev/sdf1 /mnt/usbstick' to mount it at /mnt/usbstick