Stupid Question of mine

[TheWaffle]

how can i access files on my pendrive when i plug it into the usb port of a server running ubuntu server 12.04 lts?

[Allan]

I have no comment on whether or not the question is stupid, but in the future please give your threads a subject related to the question. Thank you.

[TechnoGeek]

I don't know exactly how ubuntu server is different from ubuntu desktop, but a mounted storage device should show up on the desktop (or whatever server uses to list storage). If it's not mounted, you'll have to, well, mount it. I've never actually had to mount a drive manually before, so I have no idea exactly how to do that. On a related not, what file system is the thumb drive?

[ninjatex]

You have to mount it manually. In general, assuming it's the only USB storage device you would mount it this way (comments preceded with #)

#Make a directory to mount it
mkdir /tmp/flashdrive
#Mount drive
mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/flashdrive

If that completes with no errors, then it's mounted to /tmp/flashdrive and you can see the files there. If you're not comfortable with the command-line, you'll need to install a GUI with a file manager. For servers, you want to keep it light so I'd suggest fluxbox w/ thunar.

[TechnoGeek]

You have to mount it manually. In general, assuming it's the only USB storage device you would mount it this way (comments preceded with #)

#Make a directory to mount it
mkdir /tmp/flashdrive
#Mount drive
mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/flashdrive

That's exactly what I was thinking of
Note that depending on your exact configuration (particularly how many drives, partitions, etc. you have on your server), it may not necessarily be sdb1 but (for example) sde1. There should be a command to list devices (similar to the windows diskpart).

[ninjatex]

True, mounting can be tricky if you don't have a device list. There's some good discussion of this problem over at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/USB
 
Try running the command

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sudo fdisk -l which will tell you which device to mount.