Most of you probably know how to do this, but it took me a while to figure out how to use my usb thumb drive; so just in case there are others out there of equivalent newbieness, here goes:

Just in case somebody else asks, here is how to set up your drive for linux: first make a place to connect, i.e. mount it to. I chose /mnt/usb, but it could be anywhere. So, as root, mkdir /mnt/usb; then change the permissions there to give yourself access. Then when you insert your drive, your system should "see it" automagically as drive "sda". So the following command will mount it to the above location: mount -t vfat /dev/sda mnt/usb. You should then be able to read your files using any standard Konqueror or similar filemanager. I was trying to access files that were vfat of course (windows); you may have to specify another file system if you are dong something else. Good luck



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