Backup name

[Karl Larsen]

On 09/03/2010 09:38 AM, Steven Susbauer wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>    
>>       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!
>>
>>      
> Did you read the man page for e2label before randomly typing commands
> into it? The correct usage is:
>
> e2label /dev/hdx newlabel
>
> In your case you may also be able to use
> /dev/disk/by-uuid/ebf426af-fe2b-404a-ab35-402ec8494295 instead of hdx or
> sdx.
>
>    
     I discovered that the thing is a Directory. To test this I tried 
from the /media/ directory:

     $ /media/ mkdir disk-1

This worked fine and I am getting ready to do another backup to 
/media/disk-1/backup/.

I expect it will work fine. Then I will delete all at the bad directory 
including the bad directory!

73 Karl


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