On Sunday 27 August 2006 13:39, Stephen Liu wrote: > The PCs, a workstation only, are not connected to network. Neither > I'll run 2/3 PCs simultaneously.
Ok, I didn't have this info. > Previously I did it in this way making use of an addtional network > card connecting 2 PCs. Later I ceased using this method because > another PC was standing idly. If you don't need real-time synchronization, and don't handle gigabyes of data, maybe aliasing umount could be an option (this is kind of hackish, of course): ------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash # assuming your removabile device is mounted under /mnt/external # assuming umount is called by mountpoint and not by device name MOUNTPOINT="/mnt/external" if [ "$1" == "$MOUNTPOINT" ]; then echo "Synchronizing..." # put here whatever command you want to use for synching, eg rsync .... fi /bin/umount $1 exit $? ------------------------------------------------------------------- Save tha above script into a file named "umount", and put it in your path so that it is found before the real /bin/umount. Or you can do the same with a shell alias. Great care must be taken when modifying or aliasing important system commands, since you kind of break the integrity of your system. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
