Find a Pathname to an external drive

Hallo to you all!
I am using MAVERICKS on a Mac.
One of my disk-drives is an external drive (Promise), which is connected via Tunderbolt.
How can i find the complete, pathname (i will copy via terminal!) to copy files from my home-dir on the internal drive to a directory on the Promise-drive?
What is the pathname of the Promise?
Thanks for helping!
Ciao!
hg

I think you would be able to create the VM on your MBA, then copy or move it to your USB drive.
From the VMware Fusion website features page:
"*Easily move your virtual machines*
*Your complete virtual machine is stored in a single, easy-to-manage package. Move your virtual machines to an iPod, another hard drive, or Mac simply by copying a file.*"
Just create the virtual machine on your Air, then move it to your USB drive. Make it small enough to fit on whatever USB drive you plan to use.
I'm not sure why you have to have the MBA external superdrive plugged in, but if you do, there will be no way to simultaneously use that USB drive. My Windows XP VM is 4gb but you should be able to create one smaller. It may be easier just to take the hard drive space hit...your VM should run a lot faster too, compared to running it from the USB drive.

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