yes.... I did edit fstab. I&#39;m sure I created the label on the usb. How do I see what that setting is? Did you see the message about the permissions being wrong and me wondering what I should set them to? Would 700 be good or do you recommend something else?<div>

here is fstab:<br><div><div># &lt;file system&gt; &lt;mount point&gt;   &lt;type&gt;  &lt;options&gt;       &lt;dump&gt;  &lt;pass&gt;</div><div>proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0</div>

<div># / was on /dev/sda1 during installation</div><div>UUID=cc83628a-2b28-40b4-8f02-c8a818ef55e9 /               ext4    errors=remount</div><div>-ro 0       1</div><div># /home was on /dev/sda6 during installation</div>


<div>UUID=0653ee3e-f753-42a3-a6b6-dc2948cb8859 /home           ext4    defaults      </div><div>  0       2</div><div># swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation</div><div>UUID=31eb4a2e-cf07-47d8-9f0a-2b12795b32fc none            swap    sw            </div>


<div>  0       0</div><div>#pictures move</div><div>/media/bmike1/entertainment/Pictures /home/bmike1/Pictures none bind 0 0</div><div>#backups drive</div><div>LABEL=MY_BACKUPS  /mnt/backup  ext3  noauto,users,noatime  0  0</div>


<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Matt Graham <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:danceswithcrows@usa.net" target="_blank">danceswithcrows@usa.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


From: Michael Havens<br>
<div>&gt;&gt; If you mount a disk on /mnt/backup , then rsync your ~ to<br>
&gt;&gt; /mnt/backup/bmike/ , that means that /mnt/backup/bmike/ will contain<br>
&gt;&gt; an exact copy of your ~.<br>
</div><div>&gt; bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdc /mnt/sdc<br>
<br>
</div>You made an fstab entry for the device by editing /etc/fstab as root with a<br>
text editor, didn&#39;t you?  I put that as step 3 in my original message on<br>
2013-06-29.  One like so:<br>
<br>
LABEL=MY_BACKUPS   /mnt/backup   ext3   noauto,users   0  0<br>
<br>
...this fstab line means &quot;The device with label MY_BACKUPS is mounted on<br>
directory /mnt/backup , has a filesystem type of ext3, is not mounted<br>
automatically on boot, users are allowed to mount or umount it, and it is not<br>
auto-fscked or dumped&quot;.  This allows you to mount the device as a normal user<br>
by just doing &quot;mount /mnt/backup&quot;, which was in the script.<br>
<div><br>
&gt; mount: no medium found on /dev/sdc<br>
<br>
</div>USB disks can be associated with different device nodes, depending on how many<br>
other devices are plugged in.  This is the whole point of using a filesystem<br>
label; you don&#39;t have to worry about which device node the USB disk is seen<br>
as.<br>
<br>
Note that if you&#39;re using udev (almost everything is), you can take a look at<br>
/dev/disk/by-label/ and see entries in there for every block device that has a<br>
filesystem label that&#39;s connected to the machine.  You can also put<br>
/dev/disk/by-label/A_LABEL in an fstab entry, which will work fine provided<br>
udev is running and the device is plugged in.<br>
<div><br>
&gt; bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:~$ ls /mnt/backup<br>
&gt; ls: reading directory /mnt/backup: Input/output error<br>
&gt; How does one list from a device with a label?<br>
<br>
</div>One mounts the device on a mountpoint first, then one does &quot;ls<br>
/that/mountpoint&quot;.<br>
<div><div><br>
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