usb hardrive

[Neil]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> Douglas Pollard wrote:
>> My usb hard drive sdh1 shows up at the bottom of the below list in terminal. There is no icon in ( places, home) to open.  I assume this is because it is not mounted at start up. I plan to do all my backups to this drive. Without backup I feel pretty naked when it comes to trying to get the partition to mount at start up. I don't need all my files screwed up.  I am not really sure mounting is the problem.
>>               Please help
>>                       Doug
> Not sure how your getting to your external hard drive. Mine has a
> regular USB cable and it always shows up as /media/disk/. My rsync file
> tells it to put the backup on /media/disk/ and it does.
>
> Karl
>

Hi Karl

That may be perfect in most cases, but have you ever booted the box
with an USB stick in one of the other ports? It may succede, it may
not.
Why:
Linux seems to check the USB ports in a simple sequence (it should be
possible to find it, but I don't know how). /media/disk wil be
occupied by the first disk found, /media/disk1 (or something) will be
the next. If you have the unfortunate situation where the USB stick is
detected BEFORE the hd is detected, you will have the backup program
trying to put all the data on the USB stick. This may work a couple of
times, but it may cause some big big troubles (dunno what flavour of
backup sw you use).

Just trying to prevent troubles that may not ever happen to anyone,
but are best to avoid.

Kind regards
Neil


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