Mounting drive - still having problems

David Ryder davaweb at bigpond.net.au
Sat May 31 02:59:09 BST 2008


Hi,
Please forgive me still asking for help trying to get this to work - I
don't understand why not despite manuals and this list's help. The drive
just does not mount this way. I need to be able to use different mount
points at different non-clashing times.

HARDY
AIM: through cron, use scripts to load one drive in different folders at
different times - for valid business reasons.
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EXISTING FOLDERS IN /media FOR MOUNTING POINTS
/media/backhardy32
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FSTAB:
not in fstab, not wanted in fstab
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SUDOERS FILE: (BLANK LINES DELETED TO SAVE SPACE IN EMAIL)
# /etc/sudoers
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
Defaults env_reset
# Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to not need a password
# %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL
# Host alias specification
# User alias specification
# Cmnd alias specification
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
david ALL = NOPASSWD: /bin/mount, /bin/umount
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CRON FILE:
/etc/cron.d file called 'david':
00 04 * * * /home/david/my-cron-jobs/mount-hardy32-backups.sh
30 05 * * * /home/david/my-cron-jobs/unmount-hardy32-backups.sh
(tested with times 00 09 and 00 10 respectively so I was awake and could
see if it worked!)
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FILES IN /home/david/my-cron-jobs:

mount-hardy32-backups.sh:
#!/bin/sh
sudo mount /media/backhardy32

unmount-hardy32-backups.sh:
#!/bin/sh
sudo umount /media/backhardy32
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>From my previous email, other suggestion as well as sudoers, were tried
but mounting/unmounting did not work manually. sudoers was edited
correctly (after learning curve! :-)  )

Many thanks everybody - help is really appreciated.

David




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