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I unmounted my 2TB Samsung SSD, before I went on holiday (meaning to bring it with me but I forgot). I have remote SSH access but I can't find a way that will work for an up-to-date kernel (OpenSuse Tumbleweed, as of May 2025) to remotely remount an unmounted but plugged in USB drive.

lsusb -t
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/:  Bus 002.Port 001: Dev 001, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/9p, 20000M/x2
    |__ Port 008: Dev 003, If 0, Class=Mass Storage, Driver=uas, 5000M
    |__ Port 009: Dev 002, If 0, Class=Mass Storage, Driver=usb-storage, 5000M
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  • Since your usb drive is still physically connected but unmounted, you can remount it remotely via ssh. What did you try? Commented May 26 at 7:42
  • Identify you device with lsblk -f and than mount to a mountpoint/entry/folder sudo mount /dev/sdX /PATH Commented May 26 at 7:44
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    lsblk -f ... sdn └─sdn1 exfat 1.0 EB11-D702 Commented May 26 at 8:00
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    you have to mount sdn1not sdn check the post Commented May 26 at 8:17
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    You always mount a partition /dev/sdn1 not the entire device /dev/sdn Commented May 26 at 8:23

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Since your usb drive is still physically connected but unmounted, you can remount it remotely via ssh.

Identify you device with lsblk -f and than mount to a mountpoint/entry/folder sudo mount /dev/sdX /PATH

If lsblk doesn’t show the device, try to rescan usb device:

Try this:

sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sdn1 /PATH-TO-MOUNT

If you get error about missing exFAT check this:

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