Linux Admin 101

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Finding and Copying to External Disks

  • How do you find an external USB disk?

Type sudo fdisk -l

This lists disks.

I got the former disks, plus /dev/sdb1

  • How to copy /home/marcin directory to /dev/sdb1 ? Is that the path? What is the difference between path and TOSHIBA EXT? What is mounting a disk?
  • What is the path of external disk, and what is difference between path and /dev/sdb1 ?
  • What does it mean to mount a disk? When you 'mount' something you are placing access to the file system contained within onto your root file system structure.
  • Is an external USB mounted autmatically in command line? Sometimes. If not, mount it by creating a mount point and
  • What is a filesystem? Filesystem format?