Post #3654248
2026-04-29 05:44 UTC
@shadowfals@toot.cat Most modern file managers have keyboard navigation with the arrow keys, tab, enter, and the menu key (assuming your keyboard has one). Press alt+up to go to the parent directory so you can copy your entire home folder.
You should be able to search for the file manager in the menu. Either the meta key (windows/option) or alt+f2.
Failing that, the terminal command is:
rsync -a /home
The filepath of the USB drive will most likely be:
/run/media//
The autocomplete candidates should show up when you hit tab twice. If it's not mounted there, it's going to be somewhere in /media/
if rsync isn't installed, you can instead use:
cp -r /home
If for whatever reason you can't get to the terminal through the menu, the common keyboard shortcuts are ctrl+alt+t or meta+t. Failing that, you can get to a TTY terminal login with ctrl+alt+F3 (or the other F keys)
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@ammdias@masto.pt 2026-04-29 07:51
@mark_pc@hachyderm.io @shadowfals@toot.cat It may also be that the USB device has to be mounted and then unmounted -- `udisksctl` is a good tool to do that. If the USB drive is encrypted, it will need to be opened using `cryptsetup` and closed after everything has been copied.