Copy files from computer to USB using linux command prompt Rumi, February 2, 2009 Somebody lately, asked a silly simple thing- how can he copy files from his computer to usb and he’s using linux? Actually any novice can ask this simple thing- as GUI interface is already became quite mature than earlier and ppl naturally forgetting command consoles. Anyways, here goes it like this- mkdir /mnt/sda1 mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 cp yourfile /mnt/sda1 sync umount /mnt/sda1 Administrations Configurations (Linux)