Paul Howarth wrote:
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.
Sure, thats a workaround. I was looking for a solution of the whole problem.
SInce your script is running as root, there's not a lot you can do, at least not permissions-wise. I wonder if you could do something like create a small loopback filesystem (or small partition) containing just an empty directory, and have that mounted read-only on your mount point. If you mounted your USB drive read-write on top of that, it'd be writable but otherwise not even root could write. Worth a try.
Paul.
