File Systems Through Pengin Colored Glasses

That the AVB USB Mobile Drive 2.0
works in Linux should come as no surprise; it is, after all, simply a USB storage device - media available
via a USB connection. Once formatted, it is mounted as any hard drive, CD-ROM, or floppy and is accessed
in the same manner - via the file system. Most people are used to C: D: when thinking of file systems,
so it will be a bit different because Unix/Linux/BSD based systems don’t use that convention - they
use / - “root” - as the base of the filesystem. For a good look at how Unix/Linux based file systems
are structured, have a look here
and make sure to look here.
(Copied from here with the Table of
Contents numbering removed for easier reading:

/bin : Essential user command binaries (for use by all users)

/boot : Static files of the boot loader

/dev : Device files

/etc : Host-specific system configuration

/home : User home directories (optional)

/lib : Essential shared libraries and kernel modules

/lib : Alternate format essential shared libraries (optional)

/mnt : Mount point for a temporarily mounted filesystem

/opt : Add-on application software packages

/root : Home directory for the root user (optional)

/sbin : System binaries

/tmp : Temporary files

So instead of accessing my drive at E: or F: or whatever the system assigns the drive, I created a directory
called usbkey in my home directory, then mounted my AVB USB Mobile Drive 2.0 via the
command ‘mount /dev/sdd1 /home/steve/usbkey’. I now have access to 128 megs of additional/removable/portable
storage in /home/steve/usbkey. Woohoo! Thank you, Santa! Again, be sure to comb through
linux-usb.org for help with your USB devices and Linux. And use search
engines. Use them a lot!