Re: Making external drive non-removable

Douglas Alan wrote:
> spinning down, I made a little cron job that cats a file on the disk
> every few minutes.  Sometimes, however cat doesn't even see the file.
> I.e., it's gone tem****arily missing, while the drive is contemplating
> its navel.  (I know for sure this happens, as I get an email from
> cron every time that it does.)

Would either of these work?

# one
while (your favorite infinite loop method); do
   echo "this sucks" > /Volumes/drive/catch
   sleep 5 # seconds, not minutes
   cat /Volumes/drive/catch > /dev/null
   sleep 5 # seconds, not minutes
done

# two
touch /Volumes/drive/catch  # make sure the file is there
tail -f /Volumes/drive/catch > /dev/null &  # open it and keep it open

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Wes Groleau

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