Getting USB stick to automount.

Ineluki12 · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 9:47 pm Post subject: Getting USB stick to automount.

I'm having some trouble figuring out how I can get my usb drive to automatically mount and be available to a non-root username as soon as it's plugged in while the system is already running. It shows up as /dev/sda1 and works just fine, I'm just not experienced in Linux. Also, I'm curious why this usb device shows up as a scsi device...doesn't make any sense to me.

Thank you!!!
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Private_X · n00b Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 34 Location: Germany

For the automount problem I have no idea but you can mount your usb stick as user if you put something like this

Ineluki12 · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 1:10 am Post subject:

Excellent! I was thinking the fstab file was only for booting. But, I put the line in, popped in the usb stick, and there it was. Thanks!
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venkat · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 1:41 am Post subject:

a little problem with the above method is that, if you unplug your stick and replug it, it may be assigned a different dev entry like /dev/sda2 etc. then the fstab entry won't be relevant.

if you use udev for device management, then there are udev rules that can map all these different /dev/sdXX entries generated to a single symlink (/dev/usbstick for e.g.) that ofcourse you may put in your fstab as above.

also, one more note about using auto in the fstab entry. i read somewhere that it might be unsafe, the mount command sniffs a 'magic' entry on the storage device to sense the filesystem. there is a remote chance that i might sense it wrong. that would mess up all data in the device. so if you know what filesystem you have just explicitly state it there, like vfat etc.
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Ineluki12 · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 9:50 pm Post subject:

Ok, thanks! If I have problems with it showing up on a different device name, I'll give that a whirl. And ya, I already had it set to vfat b/c it won't even accept auto from the command line for my usb stick.....wierd, but vfat works great.

Thanks
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