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epig
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 Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 10:08 am Post subject: Auto-mounting USB memory stick (udev, dbus, hal) |
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So I got my shiny new USB Memory stick. No problem mounting it the old-fashioned way (mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb)
But what I want to do is have my box mount this automatically every time I insert.
I have udev working properly, emerge hal (and dbus) and get them too running porperly.
When I insert the USB stick I find this in the log:
| Code: | Sep 19 11:59:33 [kernel] scsi11 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Sep 19 11:59:38 [kernel] Vendor: Sony Model: Storage Media Rev: 0100
Sep 19 11:59:38 [kernel] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Sep 19 11:59:38 [kernel] SCSI device sda: 1014784 512-byte hdwr sectors (520 MB)
Sep 19 11:59:38 [kernel] sda: Write Protect is off
Sep 19 11:59:38 [kernel] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Sep 19 11:59:38 [kernel] SCSI device sda: 1014784 512-byte hdwr sectors (520 MB)
Sep 19 11:59:38 [kernel] sda: Write Protect is off
Sep 19 11:59:38 [kernel] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Sep 19 11:59:38 [kernel] Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi11, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Sep 19 11:59:38 [kernel] Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi11, channel 0, id 0, l un 0, type 0
Sep 19 11:59:38 [scsi.agent] disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-5/1 -5:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0
Sep 19 11:59:39 [fstab-sync] added mount point /media/usbdisk for /dev/sda1
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Everything seems to work well. Kernel sees the key, hald makes a mount point. and updates /etc/fstab
When I do a:
| Code: | mr2 ~ # mount
/dev/hda2 on / type xfs (rw,noatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
/dev/hdb1 on /home type xfs (rw,noatime)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,devmode=0664,devgid=85)
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I see that the device is not mounted.
So I check /etc/fstab and find that this line has been added:
| Code: | | /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk vfat user,exec,noauto,utf8,noatime,sync,managed 0 0 |
Time to do a mount -a but still no disk mounted.
So I guess my question is: How do I get the key mounted automatically? I know it is possible, but I don't get how.....? What am I doing wrong?
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gustafson
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| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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| The "noauto" option should be "auto". |
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epig
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| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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Very well, how do I make this happen since it is an auto-generated entry?
Any place to set paramters like this? |
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gustafson
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Sorry, I don't really know. Good luck. |
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sam_i_am
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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| epig wrote: | Very well, how do I make this happen since it is an auto-generated entry?
Any place to set paramters like this? |
Well, if you really want, you can add a file with appropriate entry to /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy/. To see what kind of stuff to add, see /usr/share/hal/fdi/90defaultpolicy/storage-policy.fdi. But all that is pretty hairy (man hal, man fstab-sync etc). All it does is letting you mount it by hand with a slightly shorter command.
Most of all, I don't personally use it as I have a much better solution 
If you are using KDE, then make sure you have the following in your /etc/portage/package.use and recompile if necessary.
kde-base/kdebase hal
kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves hal
(you may only need the latter, but I didn't take any chances). From your post, it seems hal and dbus are working OK. That's all you need.
Then, when you plug in the USB stick, a nice icon appears magically on the task bar. You can then either choose to mount it or browse files without mounting it. I find that gives me best balance between control and automation.
I've seen mention of ivman for auto mounting, but above is plenty for me.
HTH
Sam
PS: Gnome users may want to pipe in with their bag of tricks here |
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