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I am using Terminal and have looked through directories.

I just can't find where my USB drive its directory is.

Which directory is my USB drive mounted in?

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All drives (internal, external and networked) get mounted in /Volumes. You should see a folder there with the name of your USB drive as it appears on your desktop or in the Finder.

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More generally, you can use the mount command to see all the mounted volumes and where they are mounted. (Only a subset are mounted in /Volumes.) – Chris Page Aug 11 '12 at 0:40
AFAIK both external storage devices and .dmg files are mounted in /Volumes, at least by default. What other subset are you referring to here? – patrix♦ Nov 4 '12 at 8:21
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Some techniques to try:

ls -a /Volumes

or...

ls -l /Volumes

or...

ls -la /Volumes

...may prove useful. 

mount

seems to give all the partitions that might be useful with Disk Utility, during formatting, etc.

you can probably reach your USB drive directly using:

/Volumes/<NameOfYourDrive>

This applies to other types of drives as well: optical, internal and external hard drives. All mounted volumes.

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