Backup name

[Karl Larsen]

On 09/03/2010 11:49 AM, Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
>>      I discovered that the thing is a Directory. To test this I tried
>> from the /media/ directory:
>>
>>      $ /media/ mkdir disk-1
>>      
> If you just made a directory in /media/ and don't have the hard drive
> mounted to that directory, then you're sorta umm, not really backing
> up to the external hard drive.
> Did you make sure that you're mounting your drive to /media/disk-1/ ?
> you could add a fstab line for the drive. Then, when you plug it into
> your computer, you could have it automount correctly.
> Changing the label works just as well.
>
>    
>> 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!
>>      
>   Good luck.
>
> ~SpaceGhost
>
>    
             I guess I was not simple enough for you. With the external 
HD turned on, it is plugged into a USB port and the external HD is shown 
at /media/.  I am at /media/ with a call that looks like:

     $ sudo rm -rf ebf42.....

it is deleting the bad directory.


The deleting takes quite a time.


73 Karl




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