Rasp Pi: USB Thumbdrive

First time trying a USB thumb drive in the raspberry pi. After plugging it in, I remoted in (RDP) and it was already mounted as a drive in the file system. I didn't need to do anything.

I need to test whether it would have been mounted if I only remoted in via terminal (SSH). Was it the x interface that mounted it or the plugging in of the drive at the OS level that mounted it?



Resources:

• http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-add-usb-storage-to-the-raspberry-pi/