Determining the mount point for a USB flash drive on a Lubuntu system
I booted a PC from a USB
flash drive
on which I had installed
Lubuntu Linux.
I also plugged another flash drive into the system, but I didn't know
where it was mounted.
The hard
disk drive (HDD) in the system was /dev/sda and I assumed the
Lubuntu Linux bootable drive was /dev/sdb and the new drive would be
/dev/sdbc. You can type for devlink in /dev/disk/by-id/usb*;
do readlink -f ${devlink}; done at a
shell prompt, which you can obtain on a Lubuntu system by
clicking on the bird icon at the lower, left-hand corner of the
screen and selecting System Tools then Qterminal,
to see a list of the USB devices attached to a system.
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ for devlink in /dev/disk/by-id/usb*; do readlink -f ${devlink}; done
/dev/sdc
/dev/sdc1
/dev/sdb
/dev/sdb1
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$You can find the location where a USB drive is mounted by issuing
the mount
command and then
piping
the output into the
grep command to find information on just the particular drive in
which you are interested.
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ mount | grep sdc
/dev/sdc1 on /media/lubuntu/EMTEC C450 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,rela
time,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=is
o8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2)
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$
In this case, I knew the USB flash drive was a 16GB Emtec device
and I was able to see it was mounted at /media/lubuntu/EMTEC
C450. I was then able to view the files and folders for
the drive from the shell prompt.
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ ls /media
cdrom lubuntu root
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ ls /media/lubuntu
'EMTEC C450'
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ ls /media/lubuntu/'EMTEC C450'
EMTEC.icns EMTEC.ico 'System Volume Information' autorun.inf
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$
References:
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How do I figure out which /dev is a USB flash drive?
Date: September 16, 2008
superuser
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Creating a bootable USB flash drive from an ISO file using Rufus
If you have an
ISO
file that could be written to a CD or DVD to boot a system, but wish to
use it to create a bootable
USB
flash drive and
wish to do so using software on a Microsoft Windows system, you
can use
Rufus.
The developer is Pete Batard and his blog can be found at
Pete's Blog; the GitHub page for
the software is at
rufus.
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Burning an ISO file to a CD or DVD on a Windows 11 System
If you wish to burn a
.iso file to a
CD or a DVD on a Microsoft Windows 11 system, you can do so by taking the
following steps.
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In the Windows File
Explorer, Right-click on the .iso file, then click on Burn, which appears
above the file list.
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If the appropriate CD/DVD drive does not appear in the "Disc Burner"
field, select it then click on Burn (check the box first
for "Verify disc after burning", if you wish to have the program
verify that the disc can be read successfully after the iso
file is burned to the disc).
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When the iso file has successfully been written to disc, you should
see "The disc image has been successfully burned to disc." You can
then click on the Close button.
The disc will then be ejected.
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Add an AddEvent calendar to the desktop version of Outlook
AddEvent provides organizations
and companies a means to add their event calendars to their users'
calendars. When I was helping my wife add an organization's calendar
to her desktop version of Outlook, when I tried to add the calendar through
the AddEvent website, I saw two options for Outlook when I clicked on
Add to Calendar. On the "
Subscribe to the calendar" list of email options were the following:
- Apple
- Google (online)
- Office 365 (onlilne)
- Outlook
- Outlook.com
- Yahoo (online)
When I tried the Outlook option, the AddEvent
website gave me no option to download the
.ics calendar file for the
organization, instead the only option was to have the site open the new
Office 365 version of Outlook on the system, which would force her to sync
her email, contacts, and calendar with the Microsoft cloud, which I didn't
want to do. I wanted the .ics file so I could add it to the older version
of Outlook on her desktop system that she uses for her email, calendar, and
task list. There is a way to get the .ics file and use it with Outlook
or another application, but you have to choose the "Yahoo (online)" option.
In step 3 for the Yahoo instructions, you will see a URL for the .ics file
which you can copy and paste into a new tab in your browser, which will
allow you to download the .ics file to your system.
Once I had the .ics file, I was able to click on File then
Open & Export in Outlook on my wife's PC to open the
.ics file I downloaded and add the organization's calendar to her Outlook
calendar.
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Transferring files over an RDP connection
If you are connected to a remote Microsoft Windows system from another
Windows system via the
Remote Desktop
Protocol (RDP) using the Microsoft terminal services client provided by
Microsoft with its Windows operating systems, mstsc.exe, you can copy and
paste files from one system to the other as you would from one directory
to another on one of the systems. E.g., if I want to copy a file from a
remote Windows 11 system to my local Windows 11 system, I can select it in the
Windows
File Explorer
on the remote system and then switch back to my local system
and go to the directory where I want to place it using the File Explorer
on that system and then hit
Ctrl-V, i.e, the
Ctrl and
V keys, to paste the file into that directory. You can use the same
technique to copy a directory, i.e., you can right click on the directory and
choose "copy" and then switch to the other system and navigate in the File
Explorer to where you wish to copy the directory and then and use the paste
function, e.g.
Ctrl-V to copy
I don't know how well the technique may work on very large files or
directories, e.g., ones that are multiple gigabytes, but I've found it works
well at least for those several megabytes in size. I also have not tested what
happens if you try another copy and paste operation before the first one
has completed.
Related:
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Transferring Files Via the Remote Desktop
Date: March 13, 2010
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