I have a server with no desktop - just cli that i need to have a user plug in a usb hd and would like it to automount to a consistent directory so I can schedule a backup. The user can rotate the usb drives and it all just works. Any ideas how automate so that say /media/backup mounts to any usb harddrive and unmounts cleanly? -thx bazooka
adjust the following to your needs /dev/sdd1 /mnt/usb ext3 dev,auto,nouser,rw,sync 0 0 Just be careful on boot up, I had trouble on boot when the drive was already connected ... it wasnt recognized. I had to put up a boot delay onto the kernel command line to make sure the drivers where all awake when the mounts occur. Jobst On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:52:29PM -0700, Bazooka Joe (fastfish at gmail.com) wrote:> I have a server with no desktop - just cli that i need to have a user > plug in a usb hd and would like it to automount to a consistent > directory so I can schedule a backup. The user can rotate the usb > drives and it all just works. > > Any ideas how automate so that say /media/backup mounts to any usb > harddrive and unmounts cleanly? > > -thx > bazooka > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-- Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software ! | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jobst at barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L & The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia
As for the mouting (and unmouting) you're backup script needs to make sure the drive is UN-mounted at the end, e.g. # flush the buffers sync # unmount umount /mnt/usb On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:52:29PM -0700, Bazooka Joe (fastfish at gmail.com) wrote:> I have a server with no desktop - just cli that i need to have a user > plug in a usb hd and would like it to automount to a consistent > directory so I can schedule a backup. The user can rotate the usb > drives and it all just works. > > Any ideas how automate so that say /media/backup mounts to any usb > harddrive and unmounts cleanly? > > -thx > bazooka > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-- A computer without Microsoft is like chocolate cake without ketchup! | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jobst at barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L & The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia