I need help with drive letter equivalent

[Enigma 2100]

I am new to Linux. I have Fedora 6. I need to copy some files that were created with the root account. I need to copy them to my usb keydisk. The keydisk is mounted and I can write to it and see it no problem. The problem I have is I need to be root when I copy the files. I opened a command prompt, typed su and put the password in. the problem is I dont know how to reference the keydisk in the command prompt window.

I had a look in the mnt folder but nothing shows in there at all. What is the drive letter equivalent for linux? What is the location of the keydisk?

Also is there a way to be root in the graphical interface? That way I could drag the files accross.

[JN4OldSchool]

interesting, I never really thought about assigning a usb drive a name as these are virtual. I am sure someone a lot smarter than I will be along shortly to give you a correct answer, but for now, just log out and log in as :

user name: root
password: YOUR ROOT PASSWORD

This will put you in as root in the GUI.

[wesamel]

What I do when I want to browse files as root is to open nautilus from the terminal as root. So you do:

su
nautilus --browser

This will allow you to browse and edit files as root.

If you want to find the drive from the terminal, I think it would be in either /mnt or /media.

[nick.stumpos]

I agree it should be in /media
but if you type fdisk -l and not what your thumbdrive is called probably sda1 or something similar
then you can type the mount command and it will show you where it is mounted
alternatively you could turn off automount and set an fstab entery so that it mounts where you want t everytime

[JN4OldSchool]

alternatively you could turn off automount and set an fstab entery so that it mounts where you want t everytime

Yeah, check this link out:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...ighlight=howto

I had to do this for my DVD-Rom so I could play a couple games. Dont see why it wouldnt work for a USB drive...

[Enigma 2100]

Thanks guys. A few alternatives for me to try.
I'll repost if I get stuck.