[CentOS] Re: Device name for a USB disk

Todd Cary schrieb:

I see a sda and a sda1. Should I use the sda1?

Todd

joachim.backes@rhrk.uni-kl.de wrote:

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Todd Cary wrote:

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What is the device name for a USB drive? I want to rsync some files to it and I have completely forgotten the device name!

/usr/bin/rsync -av --exclude=".*" -e ssh /home/ /dev/???????/

Because these are managed as SCSI drives, the names are /dev/sda[1...], /dev/sdb[1...],...

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Many thanks....

Todd

Todd,

before you use it, you'll have to mount it - /dev/sda is the disk, /dev/sda1 is its first partition. Probably you'll have to mount /media/usbdisk as a regular user or mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 (or similar) as root.

HTH,

Kay