[GRLUG] Mounting USB flash drive (Centos 6.3)

[John Wesorick]

I don't understand. You mounted your flash drive to a folder on your OS and
wrote to it. That's how it works.
On Feb 5, 2013 10:39 PM, "Steve @ HCS" <steveg at branchadventures.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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,
> in order to be able to write to the flashdrive i:
>
> fdisk -l    and got the "sdc3" that i needed
>
> 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.
>
> mkdir /mnt/usbflash
> cp tmp/asdf.sql to the usbflash directory i just created
> mount /dev/sdc3 /mnt/usbflash
>
> P.S. Above is from memory of earlier in the day so hopefully is accurate
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