On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 22:37 +0100, Alexander Raab wrote: > Yes, I am running this as root. It's an automatical-backup. Sometimes I > need the disk at an other place. So the backup runs into the directory > not at the disk. Presumably this automated backup is running out of a script? If so, why not just put a test at the start of the script to check if the drive is mounted? Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>