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Mounting usb sticks and external hard drives within lightweight desktops

When you are using lightweight desktops one obvious question will eventually rise: How do you mount usb sticks or external hard drives? In most cases the system will handle to mounting and the device will just pop-up as an entry within the file manager. On some distributions you will eventually realize that while you can copy things from the device easily, process might not be just drag and drop when you try to copy things to the device. Continue reading