However, there is no sde block file available in /dev. The closest
things are sda, sdb, sdc, and sdd. I try mount using these device
files, but the message I always get is 'mount: No medium found'.
Udev is what creates the device file, right? Why isn't it creating an
sde or sde1 device file for me? I spent a lot of time googling about
this, but all the tutorials I found on mounting assume that /dev/sde
already exists.
I get basically the same results when I try a different usb stick.
Try this..
do an ls on /dev and output it to a file. Plug in your usb and wait a
few seconds. Do another ls and output it to a different file. Do a diff
and see what dev creates. If it creates /dev/sda then I guess that's
the one you should use.
$ ls /dev > /tmp/usb1.txt
$ ls /dev > /tmp/usb2.txt
$ diff /tmp/usb1.txt /tmp/usb2.txt
On mine, /dev/sda gets created.
Good luck.
Amit