[CentOS] Reformatting a USB drive

Fri May 25 13:53:06 UTC 2007
Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com>

Matt -

Many thanks!  Yes, that makes absolute sense once I cleared my mind of M$.

Todd

Matt Hyclak wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 08:54:29PM -0700, Todd Cary enlightened us:
>   
>> Jim et al -
>>
>> << Very likely it created a directory named usbdisk in /media, and sync'd
>> the files there. If you plug something in with a label of 'usbdisk',
>> it'll get mounted there, and hide the existence of the files
>> underneath. >>
>> So, the question for me is how does Linux know if there is a USB drive 
>> so the info is transferred there or to create a "local directory" and 
>> put the data in it?  I would have expected an error message, "Hey, 
>> dummy.  The drive is not connected".
>>
>>     
>
> Because there's nothing special about drives in Linux. They're all just
> files/directories. /media has no special meaning to the kernel, only the
> user, so the system will happily let you create folders wherever you want.
> If the folder happens to be physically located on another drive, it will put
> the files there. That's one of the beauties of Unix-like filesystems - it
> all looks the same regardless of drives/partitions/etc.
>
> It's up to you to check that the drive is there before running rsync.
>
> Matt
>
>   

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