What if you prefer to use the command line? No worries. ACCESSING USB DRIVES VIA THE COMMAND LINE So it’s about 25% used with these movies, plenty of space for more!ĭone with the USB flash drive? Right-click on the drive’s icon on the quick access toolbar and a different menu appears:Ĭhoose “Eject” and it’s safe to pull out of your computer. A menu pops up:Ĭhoose “ Properties” and you’ll get this terrific visual representation of the drive’s capacity and available space: To figure out how much space you have left, click on the thumb drive’s name on the title bar of this window. But I digress! CALCULATE AVAILABLE SPACE ON USB FLASH DRIVE
#HOW TO RUN UBUNTU FROM USB MAC MOVIE#
The best movie on the drive currently? I’d say it’s a close competition between Kurosawa’s terrific Ran and the noir sci-fi thriller Dark City. I use this to copy movies from system to system, as you can see. It’s that fourth one, and it’s actually a pretty attractive graphic! Click on it and you’ll open up the USB drive in the usual Ubuntu file browser: What might not be at all obvious is that a new icon just showed up on the left side quick access toolbar: In this instance, my flash drive is called “64GB”, and you get one guess regarding its capacity! 🙂 Plug in your USB thumb drive and after a few seconds, you’ll hopefully see something like this appear at the very top of your screen: So let’s check it out! ACCESS USB FLASH DRIVE IN UBUNTU LINUX GUI Ubuntu is generally easy to work with, however, so in this instance you shouldn’t have any problems once you learn where to look and what top level directory contains removable media on the command line.
#HOW TO RUN UBUNTU FROM USB MAC PC#
It also depends on the format of the drive if it’s formatted for MacOS, it’s likely it won’t show up on a PC or Linux system, or will show up with a prompt to erase or format it to make it readable. If you’re working on the command line – as many Linux users tend to do – then it can be even more confusing with thousands of folders and subdirectories.
While most operating systems now have strong support for removable media, it’s not always obvious where that new external drive has been added to the file system.
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