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#1 2018-10-22 15:54:28
- milton01
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- Registered: 2018-10-22
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Mount external HDD to specific point
Hi guys,
I already spend hours browsing through the forum and web, but unfortunately I still couldn't figure it out myself.
I want to use an external hard drive for my backup process and want to mount this HDD to a specific mount point every time I plug it in. Currently the HDD will be mounted automatically to "media/some/folder", but I want it to mount to "mnt/backup_hdd" for example. I am trying to do this by defining the following udev rule in "/etc/udev/rules.d":
ENV{ID_FS_UUID}=="94c3b622-9bc8-4bd1-9d4a-87e7751707fe", RUN+="/usr/bin/mount /mnt/backup_hdd"
For some reason it is not working. I switched the "mount" command with some a "/usr/bin/touch /home/milton/Desktop/text.txt" to see if it works and it does. As soon as I plugin the drive the rule will be activated and processed, but not with the mount command in it.
Since the rule is working I guess there might be some permission problem maybe?
Any ideas how to solve this or maybe is this totally wrong approach? Thanks a lot in advance!
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#2 2018-10-22 17:09:57
- Slithery
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Re: Mount external HDD to specific point
Welcome to the forums milton01 
This is already covered in the wiki, please search it before posting as set out in our forum Code of Conduct.
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