UDEV and auto mounting external devices

enine · 08-26-2011, 06:36 PM

I'm not finding a good guide to udev. Before when I had some usb storage is was easy to find the device id, put in the hotplug config file and make it run a little script to mount it what I wanted it to be called. Doing this not seems to elude me and I'm looking at the Slackbook 3.0 and its not mentioned, am I overlooking somehting simple?

SeRi@lDiE · 08-26-2011, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by enine

I'm not finding a good guide to udev. Before when I had some usb storage is was easy to find the device id, put in the hotplug config file and make it run a little script to mount it what I wanted it to be called. Doing this not seems to elude me and I'm looking at the Slackbook 3.0 and its not mentioned, am I overlooking somehting simple?

lsusb will give you the device id of anything pluged in via usb.

Diantre · 08-27-2011, 01:58 AM

Here's a guide about writing udev rules:

http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html

gorillus · 08-27-2011, 06:05 PM

Or here (more copy and paste and not exactly a guide to write them on your own):

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev

enine · 11-05-2011, 11:08 AM

udevinfo, udevtest, etc don't even seem to exist anymore, is this where HAL replaces udev (I thought hal was only at the kde level), is there a guide thats current?
Basically what I want to do is take a specific device id and make it auto mount as /media/backup

catkin · 11-05-2011, 11:12 AM

AFAIK there is no current guide. udevadm info replaces udevinfo and udevadm test replaces udevtest. HAL and udev co-exist. HAL is not KDE-specific.

gargamel · 11-06-2011, 07:57 AM

BTW, HAL is obsolete. Recent versions of major distros have started to drop it, and it is no longer maintained, AFAIK. Many programs that formerly used HAL, now use udev directly, and udisk and upower emerge as the new standard succeeding HAL.

gargamel