[GRLUG] Mounting USB flash drive (Centos 6.3)

[Steve @ HCS]

Thanks John,

Is the folder on the OS,  a hardware abstraction queue?

On 2/5/2013 10:53 PM, John Wesorick wrote:
>
> 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 
> <mailto: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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