Mounting drive - still having problems (David Ryder)

[banewman at supernerd.com.au]

> 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.
> ________
> EXISTING FOLDERS IN /media FOR MOUNTING POINTS
> /media/backhardy32
> ?________
> FSTAB:
> not in fstab, not wanted in fstab
> ?________
> ?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
> ?________
> 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!)
> ?________
> 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
> ?________
>
> >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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>   
Hi David,
    Without an entry in fstab for the mount you need to use the mount 
command with a dir to mount and the mount point afaik.
e.g.  sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/backhardy32
    hope it helps
    Paul