Problem unmounting drive

[Lisa Milne]

How are you setting the cron job?
Are you setting it as root?
As I don't see this working if you were to set it as a normal user.


On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 11:23 +1100, David Ryder wrote:
> Hi,
> Hardy 8.10
> 
> Please can anybody in the list help with this? It is driving me nuts.
> 
> I hava a physically separate ntfs drive that I use for backups. It makes
> no difference if I format it ext3. The drive is not in fstab as I do not
> want it mounted automatically nor all the time. Keeping it in
> Places>Removable Media suits me fine.
> 
> I have two scripts - one to mount it and the second to unmount it. The
> latter will not run under cron and will only "Run In Terminal". I am
> denied permission to unmount it by clicking on it.
> 
> The drive is called hardy32-backups and I have made a folder called
> hardy32-backups in /media/ - without it the first script will not run.
> 
> The scripts are in /usr/local/bin and Schedule Tasks has the right path
> to them:
> 1. mount hardy-32-backups.sh runs at 4am and
> 2. unmount hardy-32-backups.sh (should) runs at 7am.
> 
> 1. mount hardy-32-backups.sh script runs fine - it contains:
> #!/bin/sh
> sudo mount UUID=764809814809417B /media/hardy32-backups
> 
> 2. unmount hardy-32-backups.sh does not run - which is my problem. It
> contains:
> #!/bin/sh
> sudo umount /media/hardy32-backups/
> 
> I have tried:
> sudo umount UUID=764809814809417B /media/hardy32-backups
> sudo umount UUID=764809814809417B
> sudo umount /hardy32-backups
> sudo umount /hardy32-backups/
> without any luck as well as running without sudo in front.
> 
> When mounted by the script it appears on the desktop and in mtab as:
> /dev/sdi1 /media/hardy32-backups fuseblk
> rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
> but please note it is not always sdbi1 after a reboot.
> 
> I just can't get it to umount via cron. Any help would be very much
> appreciated, thanks.
> 
> David
> 
> 
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