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mount usb flash drives in linux, mounting usb storage, detecting usb in linux

Note: USB storage devices are shown as SCSI drives in Linux, so if you have more than a SCSI device you can find different device names (/dev/sdXX where XX depends on your hardware). In this example I’ve chosen the first device in the SCSI chain (/dev/sda1)
1. Open a console window (under KDE is called konsole)
2. [...]

SUID, SGID, Sticky Bit explained.

We often neglect the basics of Linux such as the Suid, sgid and sticky bits. But they are really useful if we know to use them properly.
Below I am explaining it briefly with appropriate examples.
1) Sticky bit was used on executables in linux (which was used more often)so that they would remain in the memory [...]