[ubuntu-uk] Symlinking to USB hard drives

[Glen Mehn]

  On 04/10/10 20:25, Neil Greenwood wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a couple of matched USB hard drives that I use as part of my
> backup strategy. At the moment they both have the same label, so they
> end up mounted at /media/backup. But this means I can't easily tell
> which drive is which, and when I plug the second in, it gets mounted
> at /media/backup_.
>
> I'd like to re-label the drives to backup1 and backup2, but then have
> a symlink automatically created at /media/backup to whichever drive
> was first plugged in. I think I need to use a udev rule, but other
> than that I'm not sure.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?

Hi Neil,

You can rename partitions in parted or gparted, which should sort it out 
for you. Then in your backup script, put something like:

if test -d /mounts/backup1
   do ln -s /mounts/backup1 /mounts/backup
elif test -d /mounts/backup2
   do ln -s /mounts backup2 /mounts/backup
else print "neither backup mount point exists, exiting"; exit 1

Does that make sense?

Best,

Glen

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