From: Glenn <glennervin@cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup@linux-speakup.org>
Subject: Re: CLI, accessing another drive
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 20:14:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <033464BFD0754E65B4F7ACFC9A52AC81@your2c061f0461> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.03.1301070558190.1286@ftml.net>
Hi Chuck,
Thank you for instructions, rather than recommending that I read the manual.
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh@ftml.net>
To: "Glenn" <glennervin@gmail.com>; "Speakup is a screen review system for
Linux." <speakup@linux-speakup.org>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 5:06 AM
Subject: Re: CLI, accessing another drive
Hi Glen,
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013, Glenn wrote:
> Hi,
> I know that other drives are devices such as /dev/sdb, or /dev/hdc, and
> the
> like.
> But I am messing with Arch Linux, with Speakup, and I want to install
> Voxin,
> and I will plug in a thumb drive, it will probably be /dev/sdd.
> can I just work my way to the folder in Arch that I want to put the
> install
> file, and do something like:
> cp /dev/sdd/voxin-enu-4.3.tgz
> and bring it in?
> I am used to copying files with Ubuntu, and only using the CLI for
> installation of the files.
> Glenn
>
You must mount the device, such as /dev/hdb1, /dev/sdb1, or the like, to a
point in your file system. Linux usually makes an empty directory available
for that purpose, such as /mnt, or /media. The mounbt command might look
like this:
# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
The number sign indicates that you must be root to do that. Once it is
mounbted, you can then use the cp command to copy your file from
/mnt/filename, or /media/filename, just as though it were already present
on your system. You can also write to that device by referring to it as
/mnt, delete stuff from it, and so on, being careful when finished to
unmount it, something like this:
# umount /mnt
or
# umount /dev/sdb1
Either form is correct, and the unmount command is really spelled umount,
no kidding.
Chuck
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