Cron?

[Knute Johnson]

On 8/2/2012 8:12 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Knute Johnson <ubuntu at knutejohnson.com
> <mailto:ubuntu at knutejohnson.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     The reason I ask is that I have a jump drive backup that I mount to
>     back up to and can't have mounted when I do the fsck on it once a month.
>
>
>
> Well, in that case, I'd write the fsck script in such a way, that either
> aborts if the filesystem is mounted or that it waits until filesystem
> got unmounted.
>
> # Check out /dev/disk/by-id for this
> jump_drive_id="ata-WDC_WD1002FAEX-00Y9A0_WD-WCAW32263803"
> jump_drive_id_dev="/dev/disk/by-id/$jump_drive_id"
>
> while mount | grep $( readlink -f "$jump_drive_id_dev" ); do
>    # jump drive is still mounted
>    # wait a bit
>    sleep 42
>    # or abort
>    # exit 1
> done
> # jump drive is not mounted
> fsck "$jump_drive_id_dev"
> # Done
> exit $?
> # EOF
>
>
> Or something like that…
>
> Alexander

Thanks very much.

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Knute Johnson