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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Yes, that makes a lot of sense. An
interesting thing i did accidentally was to write a file to the OS
folder before i mounted it. After mounting, it never got sent to
the actual drive after i then mounted it. Kind of in limbo
land. <br>
Lessons learned. Thanks John<br>
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On 2/5/2013 11:16 PM, John Wesorick wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Linux uses a single filesystem hierarchy. Everything
is under / (even removable or network drives). When you created
the folder and mounted the flash drive to /mnt/usbflash you were
telling the OS that your flash drive can be found at
/mnt/usbflash. Without mounting it, Linux can't see it, since it
isn't in the file system hierarchy. Does that make sense?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 5, 2013 11:08 PM, "Steve @ HCS"
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<div>Thanks John,<br>
<br>
Is the folder on the OS, a hardware abstraction queue?<br>
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On 2/5/2013 10:53 PM, John Wesorick wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">I don't understand. You mounted your flash
drive to a folder on your OS and wrote to it. That's how
it works.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 5, 2013 10:39 PM, "Steve @
HCS" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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While i'm out tonight wearing my ignorance on my
shoulder, i was wondering if someone could provide an
explanation of how the below works.<br>
<br>
On a VMware server running Centos, i needed to copy
some sql data onto a flashdrive. Once the USB host
and device are attached to the VM,<br>
in order to be able to write to the flashdrive i:<br>
<br>
fdisk -l and got the "sdc3" that i needed<br>
<br>
But i just don't understand enough about the OS to
know how the below mounting works. Why writing to the
"usbflash" magically shows up on the flashdrive is a
mystery to my brain.<br>
<br>
mkdir /mnt/usbflash<br>
cp tmp/asdf.sql to the usbflash directory i just
created<br>
mount /dev/sdc3 /mnt/usbflash<br>
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P.S. Above is from memory of earlier in the day so
hopefully is accurate<br>
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