On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:32:47 -0800 Alan Evans wrote: > I just want to back up some files in a cron > job but only if there's a drive plugged in If the cron job is running as root, you should be able to just do something like: if mount LABEL=BACKUP /backup then ...do backup stuff... umount /backup fi or you could use UUID=gibberish syntax, etc (whatever seems convenient to properly identify the partition on the usb drive). -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines