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USB Drive Mounting

Insert the USB drive into one of the Walnut Pi's USB ports.

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Desktop Edition​

The Desktop edition behaves similarly to a Windows PC: after inserting a USB drive, a semi-transparent USB drive icon will appear on the desktop.

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Simply double-click the icon to mount and open the USB drive. You will see that the USB drive is located under the /media/pi/ directory:

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Server Edition (Headless)​

On the Server edition, you can use commands to mount the USB drive. (This method also works on the Desktop edition)

After inserting the USB drive, first check its information:

sudo fdisk -l

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In this example, a 4GB USB drive is used. From the image above, you can see the device is: /dev/sda1.

Once you know the USB drive's device name, you can mount it using the mount command, typically to the /media or /mnt directory:

First, create an empty folder under /media. You can name it anything you like; here we'll use "udisk":

sudo mkdir udisk

Mount the USB drive:

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/udisk

Once mounted successfully, use the "ls" command to view the contents of the USB drive, confirming it is mounted successfully.

ls /media/udisk

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You can unmount the USB drive with the following command:

sudo umount /media/udisk