How to mount & unmount a USB thumb drive on CentOS 6.x Server

[Mount]
1. Plug in your thumb drive.

2. Print out the kernel messages. Your thumb drive will appear as something similar to /dev/sdb (check with the vendor name and model number):

    $ dmesg

3. Obtain the file system. It should be something similar to /dev/sdb1:

    $ fdisk -l

4. Create a target directory where you want to attach to:

    $ mkdir /mnt/usb

5. Mount the file system to the directory that you created. Now your thumb drive is accessible on  /mnt/usb :

    $ mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb

[Unmount]
1. Un mount by specifying the directory path where it has been mounted:
    $ umount /mnt/usb

* Note that the thumb drive should not be busy. In case you cannot wait to properly unmount a device, you can forcefully or lazily unmount it:
    $  umount -f   /mnt/usb
or
     $  umount -l   /mnt/usb