[PLUG] When mounted doesn't mean mounted

Joe Pruett joey at clean.q7.com
Wed Jun 24 03:11:35 UTC 2009


> Well, I was certainly logged in when I removed the CD/DVD drive and
> inserted the 500GB drive. I did not restart the computer - I just
> hot-swapped the drives. Then I launched pybackpack and proceeded to run
> the backup. Then I left the house for several hours.
>
> The filesystem on the 500GB drive is ext3.
>
> It must have been mounted or Nautilus would not have been able to
> display its contents, right? If so, then the problem is in explaining
> to rdiff-backup where to put the backup. Perhaps I need to get
> rdiff-backup's attention. I do have some 2x4s out back.

ah, i was thinking an overnight unattended backup.  can you cd to 
/media/whatever from the command line?  the little bit i've played with 
ubuntu, it seems like it makes things look like they're in /media, but 
they're really in some .gvfs dir off your home directory.



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