Re: Using cron to schedule backup to Maxtor USB HD

portsample wrote:

I've tried a variety of solutions: moving the fstab /dev/sda1 entry up
above the usbfs (as shown above), as well as commenting out the usbfs
fstab line with no success. I've also tried changing the name of the drive
to "MaxtorHD", but that caused the drive to mount to a directory named
"MaxtorHD-1"...I could umount MaxtorHD-1, but then could not remount the
drive. Thanks for all advice and suggestions.

Don't use fstab at all.

Give the partition a volume name (in Windows, -> properties, in Linux I
can't remember the tool).
Automount will do the rest.


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