Accessing usb in text

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Sun Sep 22 20:59:00 UTC 2013


On 09/21/2013 06:17 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
> I'm stuck in a text environment. I want to save stuff in /home to a USB
> drive but I forget how it is mapped / how the GUI accesses it; I know
> that it is under /run, and after this I am lost.

It will be in /run/media/$USER/$DEVICE where $DEVICE is the drive's 
label if you set it, or whatever the OEM set up if you haven't.  BTW, 
/run/media itself only exists when there's need for it, so looking there 
ahead of time won't work.


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