Automount second partition on external HD

[Qqmike]

Re: Automount second partition on external HD

it is
gparted-live-0.3.9-13.iso
(11-28-2008)
Latest released for general download.
(Live CD)

[beckfield]

Re: Automount second partition on external HD

it is
gparted-live-0.3.9-13.iso
(11-28-2008)
Latest released for general download.
(Live CD)

Ah, that did it. I labeled the second partition, and that's exactly how it appears in /media.

Thanks!

[Qqmike]

Re: Automount second partition on external HD

Ha! We get lucky again!

Actually, good to know, isn't it? and I hadn't really ever chased it down, but it makes sense that *might* be one way.

[beckfield]

Re: Automount second partition on external HD

Ha! We get lucky again!

Actually, good to know, isn't it? and I hadn't really ever chased it down, but it makes sense that *might* be one way.

Yes, it is good to know. I had never found how to label a drive, so even that is new information.

So how are you with Kcron? Now that I have my backup drive working, I have followed installed Simple Linux Backup from this site http://simplelinuxbkup.sourceforge.net

I followed the instructions on this site http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT2280165098.html to set up a backup strategy. I have the cron job scheduled to run daily at 2:00 AM, but it will not run when scheduled. However, if I go into KCron, right-click on the Task, and select Run Now, it works.

The Backup is set to run as root, and I ran KCron as root to set up the schedule.

I should probably break this out to a new thread, huh?

[Qqmike]

Re: Automount second partition on external HD

Hi!

"So how are you with Kcron? "
-- no experience at all, frankly.

Yeah -- make a new topic because we have some good folks here who know the stuff.

Glad the other is *solved*

[Qqmike]

Re: Automount second partition on external HD

Btw, beckfield,
Just an fyi
re: setting labels

You can use the newer versions of GParted Live CD to set labels on USB device partitions, as above.
To do so at the command line:

Example: Flash drive with two partitions.
Boot into Kubuntu, plug in the flash drive, and suppose it comes up as partitions sdc1 and sdc2 (i.e., as seen from your Kubuntu).
Then to set labels of kubuntu810 and casper-rw, respectively, on those two partitions, do this at Konsole (terminal):

sudo e2label /dev/sdc1 kubuntu810
sudo e2label /dev/sdc2 casper-rw

=> sometimes more convenient. I have that in my Live Kubuntu How-to (an older post re 7.10 using Syslinux); and recently JohanLingen reminded me of this, too.

[beckfield]

Re: Automount second partition on external HD

Btw, beckfield,
Just an fyi
re: setting labels

You can use the newer versions of GParted Live CD to set labels on USB device partitions, as above.
To do so at the command line:

Example: Flash drive with two partitions.
Boot into Kubuntu, plug in the flash drive, and suppose it comes up as partitions sdc1 and sdc2 (i.e., as seen from your Kubuntu).
Then to set labels of kubuntu810 and casper-rw, respectively, on those two partitions, do this at Konsole (terminal):

sudo e2label /dev/sdc1 kubuntu810
sudo e2label /dev/sdc2 casper-rw

=> sometimes more convenient. I have that in my Live Kubuntu How-to (an older post re 7.10 using Syslinux); and recently JohanLingen reminded me of this, too.

Ah, very good. I was a DOS command line nut for years, so I'm happy to know how to do stuff from Terminal in Linux. I'm having flashbacks to when I felt like a rookie around DOS...