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kztyrvlq

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Monday, June 25th 2007, 8:49pm

Mount & UUID Information Requested

Good Day All . . .

I need some help. I wrote a few bash scripts that mount backup hard drive partitions. For the last few years they have worked well using "mount /dev/hdb1 /backup" at the beginning of the script where fstab is "noauto,user,exec."

With UUID it does not work with mobility issues since my different computers all have different universal ID numbers. The UUID is assigned during boot but it is stored internally.

My question is, Can I revert back in fstab from

"UUID=??? /backup ext3 defaults"

to

"/dev/hdb1 /backup ext3 noauto,user,exec"

and what are the problems?

Mount says that I can but it doesn't seem to work. Mount has the -u UUID option but it works only with my local drives where I have inputed the correct UUID. I have tried to experiment with this but my kwikdisk listed two /backup entries and clicking on either told me that UUID=??? was not listed in fstab or mtab when it is clearly there.

I do not want to have the backup drives online during normal operations only when they are needed for a backup.

Any help or point me in the right direction.

Thanks.

Paul