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I'm currently using a Ubuntu 14.04 server with command line access only. My .html files are on my Windows and I want to transfer them. What is the path in my Ubuntu server to get into my external device (in this case a USB drive, with the path letter of G:\ under Windows)?

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  • Removable disk or builtin?
    – Jan
    Commented Oct 9, 2014 at 19:02
  • It's a removable USB drive
    – Wood
    Commented Oct 9, 2014 at 19:04

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After attaching your USB drive to a server, run in terminal lsblk, you will see all storage devices, that are attached to your machine. You may find there your USB drive (usually, they are named /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc, but is it NECESSARY to re-check that).

After that, you have to mount it to have possibility to read/write, for example:

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/

where /dev/sdb1 is your drive name that you noticed via lsblk, and /mnt - is a path, where do you wish to see filesystem of your USB drive.

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First you need to connect your drive to the server.

Second: type dmesg just after connecting, at the end you should see what the system "calls" the drive.

Third: type mount to see if some automount mechanism already mounted the drive.

If not, mount the drive manually with mount /dev/hdx /mountpoint

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