In the pmount package there is also a "pumount" command. The new device name can be found in the file /proc/partitions. So the whole procedure could be like this, using the symbolic name "udisk": cat /proc/partitions pmount /dev/sdb1 udisk # now the device can be accessed via /media/udisk pumount udisk # this removes also the mount point /media/udisk -- Best regards, Jörg-Volker.