[wellylug] Copying from USB stick in Redhat server

[John Durham]

Phillip Hutchings wrote:
> On 3/24/07, John Durham <john.modec at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>> I'm still getting used to text mode on the server Jethro was kind enough
>> to set up. One of the tasks still to be tackled successfully is getting
>> updates to the website transferred there.
>>
>> Today, I copied updates to a USB stick and plugged it into the server.
>> It was recognised as scsi0. I navigated to the website file area on the
>> server and dried to access the stick to copy from using
>> cd scsi0
>> then
>> cd /scsi0
>> In both cases I got:
>> -bash: cd: /scsi0: No such file or directory
>> or similar.
>>
>> Knowing the device is there, I must be missing something basic. Anyone
>> care to fill in the gap so I can carry out the transfer please?
> 
> You missed mounting it, most non-GUI Linux systems don't automate
> this. Since it's SCSI0 you'll probably want to (as root):
> 
> # mkdir /mnt/usbstick
> # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick
> # cd /mnt/usbstick
> 
> However, depending on the distro the device path for mount could be 
> different.
Thanks, that seems to have worked. Now to unmount correctly.

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