How to copy files from usb in ubuntu os?

[sql_plus]

Experts out there,

I am a newbie who recently get my hands on a ubuntu unit. This is my first interface with a linux os. I have a blade server here with ubuntu 8.04 os. I would like to copy some files to this blade unit but i am not able to do so as i cannot seem to copy the desired files from the os?

Other than usb copy, ftp does not work. What other methods can i copy files (from windows) to ubuntu?

Please kindly advice me.

Thank you very much.

[coopstah13]

The easiest way would probably be SCP, you can download a program called winscp which provides a GUI for transferring files, but the server has to be running SSH.

[reed9]

I'm not clear on what exactly you're doing.

You want to copy files from a USB drive to the hard drive?

What have you tried? Where does it fail? Are there error messages? What sort of files are these?

[sql_plus]

Hi there,

I have connect my usb drive to the blade server and accessed /dev/disk/by-label for which i can see my usb drive name vish SSH. However, i am not able to access the usb contents at all which i intend to copy to the local drive in the blade unit.

Here is an illustration:

root:/dev/disk/by-label# ls
MYUSBdrive
root:/dev/disk/by-label# cd MYUSBdrive
bash: cd: MYUSBdrive: Not a directory

From youtube, there seems to have a GUI application that will allow user to add and eject the usb drive. But i am not sure how this can apply here.

Thank you very much.

[reed9]

You need to mount the drive first.

sudo mkdir /mnt/MYUSBdrive
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sd(x) /mnt/MYUSBdrive

Where /dev/sd(x) is the /dev name of your USB. You can generally find that with

sudo fdisk -l

Also the -t vfat assumes the drive is formatted as FAT/FAT32.

[reed9]

Oh, I should add.

You should unmount the drive before removing

sudo umount /mnt/MYUSBdrive

And to be clear, once it's mounted, /mnt/MYUSBdrive would be the directory you would cd into.

cd /mnt/MYUSBdrive

[sql_plus]

You need to mount the drive first.

sudo mkdir /mnt/MYUSBdrive
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sd(x) /mnt/MYUSBdrive

Where /dev/sd(x) is the /dev name of your USB. You can generally find that with

sudo fdisk -l

Also the -t vfat assumes the drive is formatted as FAT/FAT32.

Hi guru reed9,

Yes, my usb drive is fat32 format.

Thanks for the information.

I will check it out.