[SOLVED] Cant copy files from Gentoo server to USB drive.

Chrisroot · 03-30-2017, 03:03 PM

Verification if this is mounted or not..

Command typed-- cd /mnt
mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/chris
mount

output----/dev/sdc1 on /mnt/chris type vfat (rw)

Rickkkk · 03-30-2017, 03:30 PM

Yes - it is mounted on a new mount point you have created at /mnt/chris.

You can now go back to my long post and execute the rest of the steps, allowing for the name of the new mount point.

Let us know how it goes !

.. Don't forget the step to successfully unmount the USB drive with umount before removing it ....

DDukes · 03-30-2017, 06:10 PM

@ Chrisroot

Here is the Gentoo Wiki for NTFS/FUSE installation and usage if needed.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NTFS

I also have no comprehensive knowledge of gentoo. But many distros have standards of doing tthings even if we haven't used that distro.

BTW, since you have your FAT32 USB working and mounting. You can put an entry for it in your /etc/fstab and thus can easily mount and umount it.

mount /mnt/chris to mount it

umount /mnt/chris to umount it

Do a man fstab or a google search on fstab to acquaint on some filesystem options when mounting filesystems like defaults, noauto,user,owner,nofail, etc...

-cheers

Chrisroot · 03-31-2017, 08:33 AM

After many questions and obstacles, I have finally been able to copy these files onto a usb drive and have them copied to a windows machine. I THANK YOU all for helping over and over again. I truly do appreciate it.

Rickkkk · 03-31-2017, 01:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chrisroot

After many questions and obstacles, I have finally been able to copy these files onto a usb drive and have them copied to a windows machine. I THANK YOU all for helping over and over again. I truly do appreciate it.

Fantastic news, Chrisroot ! Thanks for updating us and you are most welcome for the assistance. Feel free to come back should you ever require any further help with anything linux-related.

Cheers !

rtmistler · 03-31-2017, 01:27 PM

I'm glad to see that this finally got you where you needed to be. My life learning lesson is that for something new and complex or seemingly complex at first for me, I write it down so as to remember the critical points and steps for it.

I don't feel all disk mount cases will always be this difficult either. For instance a typical Linux desktop will auto-mount. And I think someone cited that you can install that and set it up for Gentoo. However on the other end, the umount has always been important.

Chrisroot · 03-31-2017, 01:38 PM

For sure, i actually took notes as I went. This was a very interesting learning phase, I shall continue on to learn as much as I can.

Rickkkk · 03-31-2017, 02:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chrisroot

For sure, i actually took notes as I went. This was a very interesting learning phase, I shall continue on to learn as much as I can.

Excellent attitude. Cheers !

DDukes · 03-31-2017, 05:04 PM

@ Chrisroot

I'm glad you got it solved too.

- cheers