Hi there.

I have a small problem and can't find the solution though I search a lot.

I have a usb drive with my mp3s. When I turn ot on I want to be mounted in /mp3 and preferable open a window in gnome with it's contents.

I have debian unstable, gnome and kernel 2.6.19-2. I have setup udev so as to have the disk shown as /dev/mp3 instead of /dev/u[ab]1. I did this because sometimes I may have another usb disk pluged and occupy /dev/uba1

I know of usbmount but it doesn't do what I want. It mounts the plugged-in disk in one of the available paths you give it.

What I really want is something like that: whenever the disk is plugged execute mount /dev/mp3 (which is of course in fstab)

How can I do it?

When I turn ot on I want to be mounted in /mp3 and preferable open a window in gnome with it's contents.
AFAIK this is not one but two things: automount stuff and show filemanager in Gnome.

For the automount there's hotplugging:
http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/linux/debianhotplug.html
...or Udev with custom rules:
http://www.disaggregate.com/blog/tec...es/000013.html
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...es_to_a_device
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=168221

And for the Gnome-open-window thing I don't know if it picks up the mount changes (FAM, Dbus or whatever else). If it doesn't, I do know it works with HAL (the horror, the horror...): just needs some custom rules to mount it under a name you want. Apart from the mind-blistering horror of having to add yet another service plus a cartload of dependencies for something as simple as automounting devices the (big) difference is that with Udev you can make it run scripts which allows for way more fine-grained control over whatever you want control over.
Something I haven't figured out yet how to do with HAL.


Just my thoughts.