On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 08:16:31PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 19:51:54 -0400 > Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 07:24:29PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > > Another issue is a lot of thumb drives have the same label. I bet > > > there are millions with the label "backup". > > > > And I'd like all my drives labelled "backup" to be mounted at the > > same mountpoint so I can use one backup script for all of them. > > > > I really believe in multiple backups. > > > > -- hendrik > > Ohhhhhhhhhhh! I see what you're doing: You're keying completely off > labels so scripts work. Makes perfect sense. > > I don't know of a way to tell pmount or udev/vdev/eudev to assign a > particular device to a thumb drive, without manually doing all the > mknod and all that. Excellent idea, very useful. But if something's > already assigned to that device, you're sol. > > But... > > I think my original handled that, by creating a database of UUID, label > and device name (and now it's going to need to include user mounting it > too). So a little universal shellscript can go in the database (which > of course is a simple file), find the label, and read across the row to > find its current device so you can plug that into an environment > variable and use that.
The current method of keying off the UUID in /etc/fstab doesn't work; it won't allow specifying more than on UUID at a mount point, even if they are never presented at once. (which is something I'd never do to two independent backup drives) -- hendrik > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > April 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century > http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
