On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:10:05 +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 05:38:02PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: >> I have a couple of USB disks that I use for backups. I rotate them so only >> one is attached at the same time. I have a nightly cron that mirrors the >> directories of interest onto whichever one is attached using rsync. > > You set LABEL to the same one.
This works great! I used tune2fs to set the labels (they're ext3) and then here's the line from /etc/fstab that works. LABEL=backup-r /mnt/backup auto noauto,user,sync,noatime 0 0 > Then /dev/disk/by-label/* should be the > same for both. LABEL can be set for FAT system using mlabel command > from mtools package. (Or MS-DOS label command) I was about to complain that I don't have a /dev/disk/by-label, but then it appeared. It seems to automagically appear when a partition with a label is plugged in, but not if a label is added to a partition which was already online. Thanks!! Reid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
