Re: mounting USB disk

2011-07-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 13 July 2011 15:52:10 Tony van der Hoff wrote: Thanks also to Csanyi He's Paul, not Csanyi. Csanyi is his surname (family name). Actually, it looks like it is Pal (from the email address) and he is translating and possibly preferring Paul. ;-) Paul is Hunga

Re: mounting USB disk

2011-07-13 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 13 July 2011 15:52:10 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Thanks also to Csanyi He's Paul, not Csanyi. Csanyi is his surname (family name). Paul is Hungarian. Hungarians put the surname first, as do the Japanese; and probably many other nationalities. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: mounting USB disk

2011-07-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
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

Re: mounting USB disk

2011-07-13 Thread briand
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:13:47 +1000 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 yo

Re: mounting USB disk

2011-07-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
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

Re: mounting USB disk

2011-07-13 Thread Csanyi Pal
Tony van der Hoff writes: > 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. > > However, just plugging it in doesn't mount it, I need to actually open > it with Dolphin. It gets unmount

mounting USB disk

2011-07-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
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. However, just plugging it in doesn't mount it, I need to actually open it with Dolphin. It gets unmounted with each logout, so the script