Locating usb drive files in Linux using shell

Hello all, I'm pretty new to unix. I am a Linux system using shell only (no GUI). When I insert an USB drive, the computer detects it but how do I know where the usb drive's files are located within Linux filesystem? I know if I pop in a CD in the CD-ROM then that maps to /media directory. But what about usb drives?

This actually depends on the version and distro of Linux. But if you have one that auto-mounts cdroms under /media, normally it would also be set up to do so for USB drives. The name of the drive may be the volume's name, however, so it isn't always predictable.

thanks Tim, I got it working. I had to mount it