Backup name

[Karl Larsen]

On 09/03/2010 07:04 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>    
>>       A while back I bought a plastic box you can put a hard drive
>> within and then plug in the USB plug into the Linux computer and at
>> first it showed up as /media/disk-1 on my computer. I would then use
>> rsync to backup the computer.
>>
>>       But when I changed the hard drive to a larger one and format to
>> ext3 instead of that Windows format the name of the backup changed to
>> this:
>>
>>           /media/ebf426af-fe2b-404a-ab35-402ec8494295/
>>
>> Which is long and rather hard to type right. Does anyone have any
>> idea how to change the name to disk-1 again?
>>      
> If you really insist to use the name disk-1 you could give the partition
> a label of that name, see "man e2label". But I'd rather use a different
> name which is more descriptive like "BACKUP". Anyway, you should make
> sure that the names are unique for all your systems.
>
>
> Nils
>
>    
    karl at Lucid:/media$ e2label  ebf426af-fe2b-404a-ab35-402ec8494295  disk-1
e2label: Is a directory while trying to open 
ebf426af-fe2b-404a-ab35-402ec8494295
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
karl at Lucid:/media$ ls
ebf426af-fe2b-404a-ab35-402ec8494295
karl at Lucid:/media$ rm ebf426af-fe2b-404a-ab35-402ec8494295/
rm: cannot remove `ebf426af-fe2b-404a-ab35-402ec8494295/': Is a directory

     Since it is a Directory I will try and make another named drive-1 
or such. And that worked!

73 Karl



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