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Originally Posted by bsd-keith
Because /mnt is a system/root directory you need to use the slash, but /mnt/usb is a sub directory of /mnt so you don't need it, if you are in /mnt, but if you aren't in /mnt, you need cd /mnt/usb.
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Thanks Keith... and as a general update: I went back to basics and read a basic unix command tutorial. It turns out that the openvpn directory that I was copying to was actually a file. I was able to figure this out by navigating to the directory and doing the "ls -l" command whereupon with the benefit of my recent command line learnings I realised that its only a directory if its got a d at the far left of the descriptive listings (next to the permissions of rw -r--r-- etc.) Still, its sad that no error msg was produced when I tried copying this file to a file named 'openvpn'. I'm presuming it did nothing, but it didn't either give me an error message or anything..
As a caveat, however, I had to delete the openvpn file in /etc before I could create a directory with the same name. I'm pretty sure the openvpn file I deleted in /etc was of no significance as it was something I'd probably created with an erroneous cp command early in my trials on doing this about a week ago, but I'm not 100% sure :/
It would be good as a learning experience to know how I created a file named openvpn in the first place mind you. From today's unix basics I think a file can only be created by typing vi /<filename> meaning I must have typed the following at some point in all of this?
Anyway I'm now going to try and get this openVPN connection to my Expressvpn using the guide referred to in post one - wish me luck!