[olpc-community-support] USB Drive Limitations?

[Michael Stone]

Carl,

There are many good 'Linux Cheat Sheets' of varying degrees of
complexity that you may wish to refer to. See google for details.

USB works like this:

When you plug in a USB mass storage device (e.g. a usb stick, MP3
player, or external hard drive), that device will be mounted at

  /media/<name> 

You can determine <name> by listing the contents of /media with a
command like 

  ls /media

Files can be copied off of the USB drive with a command like

  cp /media/mydir/myfile ~/myfile

Unfortunately, it may be challenging to get some parts of Sugar to 'see'
the files you have just copied into your home directory.

Best,

Michael

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 07:08:26AM +0000, AlaskanMariner wrote:
> 
> Rafael,
> 
> That may well be a Journal issue.  I've tried to read my USB drive a
> couple of times with the Journal, rebooting between attempts, and all
> that shows is one page of files and I can't scroll down the window.
> 
> Tomorrow I'll try accessing the USB drive via the Linux terminal
> program, but I don't know how to copy files that way.  Guess I'll need
> to find a Linux primer.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Carl