[LinuxUsers] mounting external HD in knoppix 4.0

[Roger E. Rustad, Jr]

Paul Saenz wrote:
> How do I mount an external hard drive, and save files to it while I am 
> using knoppix
> as a live cd. without overwriting any files already on the external hard 
> drive?

Windows uses xcopy, and you can only use xxcopy if you boot to a Windows 
boot CD that has that tool.

You'll need to run the copy command.

e.g.

fdisk -l (see what you have)
mkdir /mnt/bigUSB (on your destination hard drive)
mkdir /mnt/bigUSB/friendStuff
ntfs-3g /dev/sda /mnt/bigUSB (assuming that sda is the hard drive you 
wanna copy)

Now you'll need to use the cp command

e.g.

cd /mnt/friendsHDD
cp -r * /mnt/friendsHDD /mnt/bigUSB/friendStuff

Does that make sense?

If you use Knoppix, a lot of this mounting stuff should be taken care of 
automagically.

HTH