On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:32:47 -0800
Alan Evans wrote:
I just want to back up some files in a cron
job but only if there's a drive plugged in
If the cron job is running as root, you should be able
to just do something like:
if mount LABEL=BACKUP /backup
then
...do backup stuff...
umount /backup
fi
or you could use UUID=gibberish syntax, etc (whatever
seems convenient to properly identify the partition
on the usb drive).