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USB Drive Mounting

Insert the USB drive into one of the WalnutPi's USB ports.

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Desktop System​

On the desktop system, operation is similar to a Windows computer. After inserting the USB drive, a transparent USB drive icon will appear on the desktop.

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Double-click directly to mount and open the USB drive. You can see that the USB drive is located under the /media/pi/ directory:

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Non-Desktop System​

On the non-desktop system, you can use commands to mount the USB drive. (This method also works for the desktop system.)

After inserting the USB drive, first check the USB drive information:

sudo fdisk -l

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This example uses a 4GB USB drive. From the image above, you can see the device is: /dev/sda1.

Once you know the USB drive's device name, you can use the mount command to mount it, usually under the /media or /mnt directory:

First, create an empty folder under /media. Name it as you like; here we use "udisk":

sudo mkdir udisk

Mount the USB drive:

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/udisk

After successful mounting, use the "ls" command to see the file contents of the USB drive, indicating a successful mount.

ls /media/udisk

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You can unmount the USB drive using the following command:

sudo umount /media/udisk