I have tried searching on how to do this to no avail.

I simply want to be able to plug in my pen drive and access the data on it. However I cannot seem to do so. There is a lot of stuff on booting Linux from a USB pen drive, but that is not what I am after.

Does anyone have any advice?

Probe for USB devices and see if it finds any. If it does try and mount it

lsusb (i think)

then something like
sudo mkdir /mnt/usbdrive
sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/usbdrive

where sdc1 would be a device in /dev that represents the known usb drive.


Alternatively. See whats in /media to see if theres something already in there.

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I would suggest you use windows.

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