Finding and Copying to External Disks

How do you find an external USB disk? Type sudo fdisk -l This lists disks. /dev/sdb1 showed up when i plugged in the drive.
What is /dev/sdb1 ? A location?
How to copy /home/marcin directory to a /dev/sdb1 device? First set a mount point, mount your external drive, then copy to it.
What is the path of external disk? It needs to be mounted first - so it depends where it's mounted.
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 file system? It's a structure that computer uses to organize data.
What is FAT32? A file formal up to 32 GB, runs on all systems.
How do you mount? First create a mount point by sudo mkdir /media/external, and then mount by sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/external
How do you copy? sudo cp -r /~ /media/flash where /~ stands for /home/yourusername - in other words - sudo cp -r /home/yourusername/* /media/flash

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