[wellylug] Where is mount point for my USB mem stick

Pete Black pete at marchingcubes.com
Sat May 17 13:43:12 NZST 2008


not 100% sure about Fedora, but on ubuntu removable media gets mounted 
in /media/

You can also type 'cat /etc/mtab' in the terminal to see how the 
HAL/hotplug system has detected and mounted things.

-Pete

> 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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