Mount USB in CentOS

How do I figure out which /dev is a USB flash drive?

Which /dev/sdX is my usb stick on?

#dmesage

#fdisk -l

you can do this easily by referencing /dev/disk/by-id/usb-manufacturername_*serialnumber*

#yum install ntfs-3g

[Mount]
1. Plug in your thumb drive.

2. Print out the kernel messages. Your thumb drive will appear as something similar to /dev/sdb (check with the vendor name and model number):

    $ dmesg

3. Obtain the file system. It should be something similar to /dev/sdb1:

    $ fdisk -l

4. Create a target directory where you want to attach to:

    $ mkdir /mnt/usb

5. Mount the file system to the directory that you created. Now your thumb drive is accessible on /mnt/usb:

    $ mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb

[Unmount]
1. Unmount by specifying the directory path where it has been mounted:
$ umount/mnt/usb* Note that the thumb drive should not be busy. In case you cannot wait to properly unmount a device, you can forcefully or lazily unmount it:
$ umount -f/mnt/usb
or
$ umount -l/mnt/usb

#Format NTFS:

 

OK, finally I got the solution. Though I was already having package ntfs-3g previously installed, it was not sufficient enough for formatting of the usb-drive in ntfs-format.

One needs to install ntfsprogs — a subpackage of ntfs-3g for enabling the ntfs-format type partition in GParted.

I installed it using

yum install ntfsprogs

The ntfsprogs package currently consists of a library and utilities such as mkntfs, ntfscat, ntfsls, ntfsresize, and ntfsundelete (for a full list of included utilities see man 8 ntfsprogs after installation).