[clue] problems with Debian

[Darrin Goodman]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Shawn Perry <shawn at redmop.com> wrote:

> I have a udev script that will mount anything usb drive related to
> /media/<label> or /media/<other drive ID>, in that order.



Shawn, does your script also work for exFat file systems on USB flash
drives?  Just curious since I know that this can be a bit more tricky to set
up in Linux.

Thanks!
-Darrin



On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Shawn Perry <shawn at redmop.com> wrote:

> I have a udev script that will mount anything usb drive related to
> /media/<label> or /media/<other drive ID>, in that order.
>
> # Test rule for automounting a usb stick to either /media/{ID_FS_LABEL} if
> it
> # has a label or /media/usbhd-%k if it doesn't have one and then running a
> # script on it (commented out below).
>
> # udev rule by Shawn T Perry
> # Contact Info: c:720-319-7627 e:shawn at redmop.com
>
> # Skip rule if not a disk
> KERNEL!="sd[a-z][0-9]", GOTO="media_by_label_auto_mount_end"
>
> # Import FS infos
> IMPORT{program}="/sbin/blkid -o udev -p %N"
>
> # Get a label if present, otherwise specify one
> ENV{ID_FS_LABEL}!="", ENV{dir_name}="%E{ID_FS_LABEL}"
> ENV{ID_FS_LABEL}=="", ENV{dir_name}="usbhd-%k"
>
> # Global mount options
> ACTION=="add", ENV{mount_options}="relatime"
> # Filesystem-specific mount options
> ACTION=="add", ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}=="vfat|ntfs",
> ENV{mount_options}="$env{mount_options},utf8,gid=100,umask=002"
>
>
> # Make directory for automounting
> ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/mkdir -p '/media/%E{dir_name}'"
> # automount ntfs filesystems using ntfs-3g driver
> ACTION=="add", ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}=="ntfs", RUN+="/bin/mount -t ntfs-3g -o
> %E{mount_options} /dev/%k '/media/%E{dir_name}'"
> # automount all other filesystems
> ACTION=="add", ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}!="ntfs", RUN+="/bin/mount -t auto -o
> %E{mount_options} /dev/%k '/media/%E{dir_name}'"
>
>
> # Run Script
> #ACTION=="add", RUN+="/root/bin/test.pl %k %E{ID_MODEL_ID}"
>
>
> # Clean up after removal
> ACTION=="remove", ENV{dir_name}!="", RUN+="/bin/umount -l
> /media/%E{dir_name}", RUN+="/bin/rmdir /media/%E{dir_name}"
>
> # Exit
> LABEL="media_by_label_auto_mount_end"
>
>
> Shawn T Perry
> Red Mop Computing Services
> email: shawn at redmop.com
> office: 720-319-7627
> cell: 303-881-2623
> web: http://www.redmop.com
> facebook:
> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Red-Mop-Computing-Services/114352628589778
> linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnperry
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:32 AM, marcus hall <marcus at tuells.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Louis Miller <veganguy at canadaseek.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >       I'm trying to switch from Ubuntu to Debian. I plugged in my USB
>> hard
>> > drive into Ubuntu and it always recognizes it and puts the little icon
>> on
>> > the screen. With Debian, they don't make it quite so easy. My hard drive
>> > didn't get mounted. I went
>>
>> Depending on which version of Debian you are using, there may be two paths
>> to
>> look into..  The 'hal' process is deprecated and distributions are going
>> through the process of removing it.  You probably want to try to find out
>> if
>> the version of debian you are using has done this or not (Ubuntu 11.04 has
>> removed hal).
>>
>> If hal has not been removed, then it plays a big part in automounting usb
>> devices.  If it has been removed, then aparently the udev process
>> cooperates
>> with the volume manager to get things mounted.
>>
>> The whole strategy seems to be relatively undocumented, and I have a
>> mythbuntu box that has been updated to 11.04 and is now no longer
>> automounting
>> usb devices.  I can see (via "udevadm monitor") that udev detects the
>> device being plugged in, but I'm still searching for the next step in the
>> chain.  I think that I need to be looking into the thunar volume manager
>> next, but I haven't dug much into that yet.  (Not a huge priority at the
>> moment, so I may not get around to it for some time yet...)
>>
>> marcus hall
>> marcus at tuells.org
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