Hi, now that you seem ok with the partitioning and the partition 1 is not yet mountable, it is time to create a filesystem on it. As superuser or via "sudo":
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sdb1 When this is done, you should be able to mount the filesystem mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt The filesystem should be empty. So you need to make a directory which you want to populate with files: mkdir /mnt/photos and give it to the user who shall be able to write to it: chown gdsi /mnt/photos Of course the user name "gdsi" is just a guess. Give the ownership to the user id which runs your shells in the terminals. You may inquire it by this command: whoami Mine says "thomas". Now it should be possible for your normal user id to copy files into the directory: cp "$HOME"/photos/house*.jpg /mnt/photo or to create further directories underneath /mnt/photo mkdir /mnt/photo/landscapes /mnt/photo/trees /mnt/photos/clouds Before you pull the USB stick from the computer, you need to unmount it so that any still pending changes get written to the stick. As superuser or via sudo: umount /dev/sdb1 Each time after you plugged the stick into the computer, you need to mount it, if not your desktop automats do this without asking you (somewhere underneath /media, normally): mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt Have a nice day :) Thomas
