

This will give you an output that should list your drive : In order to find the unique reference (UUID) for your drive run the following command in the terminal : ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ If you are using a mouse and keyboard you will need a decent USB hub at this point. The first step is to plug in your USB stick.

It works great with the shiney new Kingston Digital 32GB DataTraveler Micro I’ve just bought myself. So here is my procedure for using USB flash drives with the Raspberry Pi where the Pi user has permissions to use it without needing “sudo”. There are lots of guides already out there but I had a few issues using most of them, mainly due to permission problems. My main goal was to clarify the process by which I could mount standard FAT32 drives and allow the default Pi user read/write permissions. I tend to transfer files from my Pi using FTP but occasionally it is useful to get stuff onto a USB drive. Using them with the Pi is a great way of getting some use out of them rather than letting them gather dust in a drawer. By now many people will have a collection of various devices of varying capacities.

Whether you call them USB flash disks, memory sticks, keys or drives they are a useful accessory in the world of computers.
