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[J Sloan <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Primm wrote:
> Hi
> I have an external 250Mb usb disk. 10.2 X86_64 picks it up as /dev/sdc and 
> mounts it under /media/disk. I just formatted  sdc1 with reiser. I want to 
> use the disk as backup to take off the premises. I want /home /srv 
> and /var/lib/mysql backing up. My question is, if I write a script to rsync 
> these three directories to /media/disk will the mount point _always_ 
> be /media/disk when I plug it back in again?

I've been doing something similar: I have a 200 GB external USB drive, which I
formatted as reiser, and I do a nightly rsync of several filesystems with a
cron job. Bottom line is that for a year or so now, it's always appeared as
/media/usbdisk when automounted.

Joe
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