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Topic: I am such a newb, Saving files

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Posted: April 07 2005,03:04

How do I save files to my hdd? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am new to DSL and I eventually want to build a Linux box, but first I am trying to understand it. Also, any links would be helpful.

When I save it goes on to ramdisk, but isn't that a temporary file?

Thanks

mikshaw

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Posted: April 07 2005,03:49

you have to first mount the drive. Can't get into details of this until we know what filesystem is on the partition in question, but basically the command is "mount /dev/<partition> /mnt/<mountpoint>".

At this point, assuming the partition is successfully mounted, you can access the partition through its mountpoint (/mnt/something).

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/mount.8.html
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man5/fstab.5.html

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