Another popular portable storage medium is the USB mass storage device (sometimes also known as a thumb drive). Like the floppy diskette you can read and write to a thumb drive but it has the advantage of storing much more data than a diskette. Thumb drive devices of capacities 32 MB, 64, 128 MB etc. are common.
To access the thumb drive, place it in the USB slot (port) provided and move the mouse to an empty area on the desktop and right-click it. From the pop-up menu select,
Disks --> usb
Note:
This assumes that the system you are using has been set up with the name of “usb” for the thumb drive; it can be another name (customizable).
Under GNOME 2.6 (see the Note at the beginning of this chapter) the thumb drive is accessed by double-clicking on the Computer icon on the Desktop, and is referred to by the name "Flash",
Computer --> Flash
This will mount the USB thumb drive and add a thumb drive icon on the desktop. Double-clicking on this will list out the files and folders in the thumb drive under the File Manager. You can then treat it like another folder to read and write files and folders.
After finishing with the thumb drive, you will need to unmount it by right-clicking on the thumb drive icon on the desktop and selecting "Unmount Volume", before removing it from the USB port.
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Tutorial: Using Common Mass Storage Peripherals
1. The Floppy Disk Drive
2. The CD-ROM Drive
3. The USB Mass Storage Device
4. The CD-RW Drive
5. CD-Creator
6. GnomeToaster
