Mounting USB Key Drives on Centos Workstations

There is a graphical client to help mount your usb drive, kdf. It'll spout a lot of messages in your terminal - unless things stop (or never start) working it's probably ok to ignore them all.

1. Plug the USB drive into any free USB port on the machine.
2. In an xterm, type the command kdf.
3. In the window that appears, find the line whose Mount Point is listed as /media/USB, right click it and select mount device.
   • If you can't find a /media/USB mount point line, and there aren't any others like it (ie. usbdisk) you're either not on a Centos box or your USB drive isn't plugged in/working.
4. You should now be able to access the USB drive at the directory listed as the mount point. You can close kdf if you'd like.
5. When you are finished, right click the same line in kdf and select unmount device.

If you know what you're doing, there is also the option of mounting the USB drive directly from the command line, but the mount point for the drive can vary across machines. The CSL recommends using kdf as a result.