Mount USB Drive in ESX 3.5

1. Connect the USB device to the ESX server machine.

2. Run the command dmseg at the Service Console, and then check the output for the device id given to the USB drive, for example ‘/dev/sdb‘.

3. Run ‘fdisk -l /dev/sdb (or whatever dmseg gave for the device)’ to ensure that the FAT32 partition can be seen by Linux.

4. Create a mount point.

5. Mount the device to the mount point. For Ex  : mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb.

6. Access the USB device by navigating to the mount point, for ex : /mount/usb.

7. The device can then be unmounted when done using the command umount.

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