[wellylug] Copying from USB stick in Redhat server

[Phillip Hutchings]

On 3/24/07, John Durham <john.modec at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> 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.

umount /mnt/usbstick

Sometimes with SCSI devices you need to use eject as well

eject /dev/sda

but normally umount does the trick.
-- 
Phillip Hutchings
http://www.sitharus.com/