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[Ori Idan]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:14 PM, James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:

> the terminal command:
> cp -R /home/yourname /media/usb
> Will copy everything you have access to


One comment: /media will contain a folder with the volume name of the stick
so it may not always be /media/usb
I just tested it on my system and it is /media/16D2-D0BB where 16D2-D0BB is
the volume name of my USB stick.

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Ori Idan


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> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Tony Yarusso <tonyyarusso at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> One thing you need to be careful of is that many methods of copying
>> files over do not include the hidden ("dot") files by default, and you
>> may want those.
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