How to save files to USB

[KYkid85]

How do i save files to the USB drive? I am able to access USB. Just cant figure out how to save them in Terminal?

-thanks

[rzusman]

Assuming the drive is mounted at /media/usb, do a
cp /path/to/file /media/usb/directory_to_put_it_in

If the drive is mounted somewhere else, you will need to change the path.

[d.dandurand]

I was having a problem saving to a usb device as well. My problem ended up being a permissions problem where I was not the "owner" of the drive. If you think this is your problem try this command:

chown username:username /media/Disk

use your user name where it says user name and the name of the media device your looking to change ownership of where it says "Disk"

To check name of media use command:

cd /media/username

again where it says username this is your username.

[DougieLawson]

chown only works if the USB device is formatted with a Linux filesystem like ext4. If it is FAT, FAT32, exFAT or NTFS the security stops at the mount. Whoever mounted it owns it, default is user=root, group=root (unless it's done with the GUI automounter when it's user=pi, group=pi).