Re: mounting USB disk
Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> writes:
> Runnung Squeeze here. I have a script which runs nightly, to backup
> certain directories to a USB disk, which does a fine job, provided the
> disk is mounted.
>
> However, just plugging it in doesn't mount it, I need to actually open
> it with Dolphin. It gets unmounted with each logout, so the script
> fails.
>
> I've been looking at ways of getting the script (which runs with root
> privs) to mount the disk, but have failed.
>
> Can anyone make any suggestions as to how to go about it, please?
Install the usbmount debian package.
See the output of:
aptitude show usbmount
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Regards, Paul
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