On 04/10/10 20:25, Neil Greenwood wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a couple of matched USB hard drives that I use as part of my > backup strategy. At the moment they both have the same label, so they > end up mounted at /media/backup. But this means I can't easily tell > which drive is which, and when I plug the second in, it gets mounted > at /media/backup_. > > I'd like to re-label the drives to backup1 and backup2, but then have > a symlink automatically created at /media/backup to whichever drive > was first plugged in. I think I need to use a udev rule, but other > than that I'm not sure. > > Does anyone have any ideas?
Hi Neil, You can rename partitions in parted or gparted, which should sort it out for you. Then in your backup script, put something like: if test -d /mounts/backup1 do ln -s /mounts/backup1 /mounts/backup elif test -d /mounts/backup2 do ln -s /mounts backup2 /mounts/backup else print "neither backup mount point exists, exiting"; exit 1 Does that make sense? Best, Glen -- Glen Mehn glen.m...@oba.co.uk skype: glenmehn | blog: http://glen.mehn.net/mba UK: +44(0)7942 675 755 | US: +1 415 704 4737 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
