usb
Currently, i am trying to copy a directory with files that contain my works website from a Gentoo server to a USB drive. Ive combed through many pages of you youtube and google and cannot seem to get it to copy. Im sure there is something im dong wrong here, anyone have any ideas?
cp -r /opt/biweb/app/ /data/dev/sdb1/
Edit: mount points
df-h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 31G 31G 0 100% /
/dev/sda1 84m 9.5m 70m 12% /boot
/dev/sdb1 68g 42g 23g 66% /data
Open the "Disks" application
Unmount the USB drive (Click on the stop icon)
Click on the "gear" icon for menu and select "format.."
Format the USB drive as "FAT"
Your system configuration looks good it doesn't matter, but check the number of process running and stop the process which occupies more memory.
I propose the best way to copying large files into Pen drive, is to use rsync.
rsync -r source/* destination
it is the efficient way use it.
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Best Answer
The command you want is:
cp -r /opt/biweb/app/* /dev/sdb1/Don't forget the asterix (*)! The above command will copy everything in the
/appfolder into the/sdb1folder.If you want to copy the
appfolder itself into the destination, then do:cp -r /opt/biweb/app /dev/sdb1/The above has no trailing slash after "app". This will copy the
appfolder as well as its contents.