Disk usage error

William John Murray bill.murray at stfc.ac.uk
Sat Feb 13 16:02:07 UTC 2010


  Thanks Will,
       I have fixed this now to automount the USB drive, which is better
because it means the backup is made.
  Thanks anyway,
       Bill

On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 15:17 -0500, aragonx at dcsnow.com wrote:
> >    * I did not regard and of the /media/XXXX directories as part of / so
> > missed it.
> >
> > So now I better fix the mounting of USB drives with /etc/fstab,
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> I created a label for my backup device/partition.  Then I wrote this into
> my backup script:
> 
> mount -L Backup /home/data/backup
> RETURN=`mount|grep /home/data/backup|wc -l`
> if [ $RETURN -ne 1 ]
> then
>     logger "Backup failed due to unmounted backup device."
>     exit 1
> fi
> 
> ---
> Will Y.
> 
> 

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