On 2018-01-12, Rich Freeman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 6:39 AM, Mick <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Friday, 12 January 2018 09:58:17 GMT Adam Carter wrote:
>>>
>>> Pretty sure you'd risk filesystem corruption by not umounting
>>> before you remove the device.
That's why I don't do that.
> This is all somewhat orthogonal to your original question though -
> these are all things that you ought to do before you remove the
> device, not after.
Quite.
> One thing I tend to do with scripts for backups to external devices
> that I don't intend to leave mounted is build the mount and umount
> into the backup script itself.
Good point. That's probably what I should be doing instead of having
udev mount the drive when it's plugged in. I think I'll work on that
in my spare time. If I label the partition in question, it should be
pretty simple...
> I usually also include a check to ensure that some file/directory
> exists which I expect to be on the drive, which prevents the backup
> script from dumping a full backup into your mountpoint if it isn't
> mounted (possibly on a filesystem with insufficient space -
Yep, that's being done. The backup won't attempt to run if the
external drive isn't mounted.
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