title: how to copy the folder in my home directory to the external hard drive
body: <p>I am running linux - and I am new to it.  </p>
  
  <p>I want to copy a folder to the external hard drive. </p>
  
  <p>How to copy the folder, called <code>martin</code>, which resides in my <code>/home</code> directory to an external hard drive?</p>
  
  <p>btw: see here what is in my <code>/home</code>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>martin@linux-70ce:/home&gt; ls -l
  insgesamt 32
  drwx------  2 root   root  16384 12. Mai 2013  lost+found
  drwxr-xr-x 54 martin users 16384 26. Jul 04:42 martin
  martin@linux-70ce:/home&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to copy the folder called martin.</p>
  
  <p>I guess the external hard drive has the following path:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/var/run/media/martin/32_00_00/a_backup_martin_samsung
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>To make sure I ran the mount command....see below the results:</p>
  
  <pre><code>martin@linux-70ce:~&gt; mount
  devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=1535300k,nr_inodes=208289,mode=755)
  tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
  tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
  devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
  /dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
  proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
  sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
  securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
  tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
  cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
  pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
  cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
  cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuacct,cpu)
  cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
  cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
  cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
  cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls)
  cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
  cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)
  cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb)
  systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=27,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)
  hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime)
  mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
  debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
  tmpfs on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
  tmpfs on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
  /dev/sda7 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
  fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
  gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)
  gvfsd-fuse on /var/run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)
  /dev/sdb1 on /run/media/martin/32_00_00 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096)
  /dev/sdb1 on /var/run/media/martin/32_00_00 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096)
  martin@linux-70ce:~&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please advice.</p>
  
  <p>Many thanks in advance.</p>
  
  <p><strong>update:</strong></p>
  
  <p>By the way: what if I get some errors during the process - due to permission-issues (cannot read the file); question: does the program keep runnning and does all the rest of the copying!?</p>