Re: mounting USB disk

[Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org>]

On 13/07/11 15:13, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Why not run blkid and if you find the "right" device by it's UUID, then
> mount it in your backup script. Do the backup and then umount the device.
>
> If the right device is not found, report that and quit the script.
>
> Using the UUID via blkid is important because you want to be sure you
> have the right backup device. A little harder if you have multiple USBs
> for the backup, but then you could cater all of your known UUIDs
Thanks, Andrew, excellent suggestion, which works fine (except that I 
used the disk label). Don't know why I had such problems before :)

Thanks also to Csanyi, I did look into usbmount; a handy utility, of 
which I wasn't aware; but not needed on this occasion.

Cheers,
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