Copy large tar file to USB drive - RH 8.2

[wb9twi]

Hello,

Can anyone point me to a  ref document or linux cmds to copy (use dd, cp. scp?) a large tar file to a USB drive on a HP DL380 gen 10 running RH 8.2.

I'm not sure how the USB drive should be formatted and what the device names are defined for the front & rear USB ports..

thx!

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] a large tar file [...]

   Define "large".

> I'm not sure how the USB drive should be formatted [...]

   That would depend on where (which OS) the USB drive will be _read_.
A USB storage gizmo is just another storage device, and can be formatted
with any file system you might want.

   If you expect to read the USB drive on a Windows system, then you
might want to format it with a FAT (or NTFS) file system.

> [...] what the device names are defined for the front & rear USB
> ports..

   I'm ignorant of the hardware and Red Hat, but I would not be amazed
if a FAT-formatted USB drive got mounted automatically when inserted
into a USB port.  "fdisk -l" might be informative.

> [...] (use dd, cp. scp?) [...]

   I'd guess "cp".  "dd" might be useful if the destination system also
has "dd", but I wouldn't use it for a file.  "scp" is a _network_
utility.

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