I have been reading tutorials on how to configure transimission to save my downloads  in USB flash drive. When I go to /media in my file manager I can see my USB flash drive and access its files. This happens automatically, I didn't mount this device. But all tutorials say I need to mount my flash drive first, and then configure transmission to work with it.So, if my device already appears in the file manager, isn't it mounted? Do I have to configure something or I should just set /media/nameOfMyPenDrive to be the download folder?
Why do I need to mount a USB flash drive if it's already in my Raspibian
linux;mount;raspberry pi
Like jasonwryan said, your distro has automounting capabilities. So your USB flash drive is mount already. You just configure your app to download files in /media/somename and it is ready.May be your distro use AutoFs, so you can edit the mount options, if you want. If you use Debian, they should be in /etc/auto.removable.