[wellylug] Where is mount point for my USB mem stick
Alastair Porter
alastair at porter.net.nz
Sat May 17 13:43:00 NZST 2008
Type
mount
into a terminal.
You should see a line like
/dev/sdb1 on /media/disk-2 type vfat
(rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,utf8,umask=077,flush)
In this case, the mount point is /media/disk-2
Alastair
On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 13:16 +1200, Carl Turney wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've finally caught up with the 21 century, and bought my first USB
> memory stick (USB Drive).
>
> Am currently using Fedora Core 5, and it autodetects when I stick it in.
> Even get an icon of it on my desktop. Easy to cut, copy, paste, save
> and delete - to & from it. Fine to unmount before removing, too.
>
> But I'd like to use the rsync command to update from drive to stick, or
> vice versa.
>
> e.g. rsync -aHvx --delete /home/carl/data-one/ /mnt/USB-Verbatim
>
> *****
> But, for the life of me, I can't see where it's mounted onto my file
> structure.
> *****
>
> Has an (unchangeable) name of STORE N GO (it's from Verbatim). I've
> used the Gnome's GUI Search tool for STORE N GO but it sees nothing.
>
> Help!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carl
>
>
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