USB flash drive - how to check mnt directory

General Discussion
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Hi all.

I am a noob when it comes to Linux so please keep that in mind.
I’m working on a project that reads sensor data from 6 accelerometers using RPi 4B running DietPi and a custom C program. Right now I’m storing data on SD card. What I want is for the end user to get data on his Windows PC as easily as possible so I was thinking of saving data as it gets recorded to USB flash drive (as txt file). End user wants a simple procedure: record data on a flash drive, import it to Matlab, do analysis.
I am thinking of 2 ways how could this be done but I don’t have the knowledge (yet) to implement it into my project:

1.) In C program do a function that checks if flash drive is inserted and then stores data on a flash drive which is FAT/NTFS formatted. There are 2 issues here: I don’t know how to check if flash drive is inserted on Linux in C and second can I save data to FAT/NTFS formatted flash drive?

2.) Write a script that copies previous file to the flash drive when new file is created.

Any pointers would be helpful.

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Hi,

many thanks for your request. Does this RPi4B is connected to a network? Is it accessible from the windows clients?

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No, it will be used outdoors without option of any network. I’m kind of using that now in the lab as I program rpi over ssh and I’m constantly downloading files to my laptop. Flash drive is also preferred option by end user.

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maybe this could help

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=39234

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I tried this method and it works for my needs:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/external-storage.md