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Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a USB-disk?

2009-06-11 01:53:57
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a USB-disk?
From: Magnus Larsson <magnus AT vista DOT se>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:50:25 +0000
ons 2009-06-10 klockan 21:55 -0400 skrev Filipe Brandenburger:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 17:57, Holger Parplies<wbppc AT parplies DOT de> 
> wrote:
> > note that you could even set the PingCmd to a shell script that checks
> > whether the disk is mounted (eg. '[ -f /path/to/usbdisk/.thisistheusbdisk ]'
> > if you have a file '.thisistheusbdisk' in the root of your USB disk's file
> > system - please ask if you need more details).
> 
> You can use the "mountpoint" command (present in RHEL 5 or SuSE 10) to
> test if that path is a mount point for some volume.
> 
> mountpoint -q /path/to/usbdisk
> (will set $? to 0 if it's mounted, non-zero otherwise)

Hi!

How would I use this value that mountpoint returns, do you mean?
(mountpoint seems to be present on my ubuntu jaunty system as well). 

Magnus



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