CentOS - Aug 2008 - Remounting a USB flash drive

I've noticed that once I right click on my flash drive icon and umount
it, in order to remount it I have to unplug it and then plug it back
in.

Is there a command that will accomplish the same task without the
unplug and plug back in physics?

Thanks.

mhr

Yes.

mount diskid

where diskid is your disk device id, e.g. /dev/sdg1

You can find out what it is by running

mount

while the disk is mounted, or by checking /var/log/messages, to see
what disk ID was assigned to it when the device was first plugged in.

You might need to specify a mount-point (where the device should be mounted),

e.g. :   mount /dev/sdg1  /media/flashdrive


Hope this helps,
Aleksey

On 7/31/08, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've noticed that once I right click on my flash drive icon and umount
> it, in order to remount it I have to unplug it and then plug it back
> in.
>
> Is there a command that will accomplish the same task without the
> unplug and plug back in physics?
>
> Thanks.
>
> mhr
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MHR wrote:
> I've noticed that once I right click on my flash drive icon and umount
> it, in order to remount it I have to unplug it and then plug it back
> in.
> 
> Is there a command that will accomplish the same task without the
> unplug and plug back in physics?
Yes. You should use
$ gnome-mount -p YOUR_FLASH_DISK_LABEL

where YOUR_FLASH_DISK_LABEL is the label you see when your system mounts 
a drive automatically.

The same way you can use gnome-umount and gnome-eject (for CD/DVD 
probably) commands, though noone is recomended for end-user usage.

Sergey.