Talk:USB drives

Michael, something looks wrong to me, but I'm not sure if it's an error on your part, or a misunderstanding on my part of what you're doing.

As I understand it, the /mnt directory is where you put SUBdirectories, onto which you mount file systems. So if you mount a device's file system onto /mnt directly, I would think it would mess up anything else you might want to mount in /mnt.

So, for instance, /mnt/cdrom would break, and /mnt/zipdisk or whatever else.

So I'd think that doing

mkdir /mnt/usbdrive

and then using that instead of /mnt would be a better approach?

-Pete