On 04/27/2016 08:16 PM, 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. > > SteveT >
You could get the label from lsblk, do 'pmount label' and it will be mounted at /media/label. Every time you plug in a thumb drive labeled backup, it'll go to the same place. If you unmount the drive, /media/label will no longer exist, so you could even have the backup script check to make sure it's there. -fsr _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng