More help requested with UDEV. To automount something with no LABEL or UUID.

davecs · 10-01-2019, 01:12 AM

That's OK. Multiple logins on my computer are caused only by the use of "Swap User". And logins start at tty7.

tofino_surfer · 10-01-2019, 11:57 AM

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That's OK. Multiple logins on my computer are caused only by the use of "Swap User". And logins start at tty7.

You seem to be only talking about your computer now but on your web page you are attempting to create a guide for everyone to use. On most major distros now logins start at tty1. Fedora used to be tty7 but is now tty1.

Also others may have multiple logins by other people. For everyone to use you should search for either tty1 or tty7.

Code:

$ who | awk '/tty[17]/ {print $1;}'

Also you should use variables as I showed and get rid of the following. Alternatively you could use a backslash to escape the newline so a long command can be split over multiple lines.

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NOTE: The lines in RED should be made into a single line when typed in.

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-...ues-next-line/

To use both techniques

Code:

#!/bin/bash
hisname=`who | awk '/tty[17]/ {print $1;}'`
mkdir -p /media/$hisname/REMOTE
chown $hisname:`id -gn $hisname` /media/$hisname/REMOTE
DEVICE=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-UEI_Remotes_UEI_Mass_Storage_000000000001-0:0-part1
mount -t vfat $DEVICE /media/$hisname/REMOTE/ \
    -o uid=`id -u $hisname`,gid=`id -g $hisname`,utf8,dmask=027,fmask=137

Also if you use mkdir -p it creates parent directories as needed.

davecs · 10-05-2019, 06:31 AM

Thanks!

There is one other problem.

Umounting from the desktop icon. In PCLinuxOS it's fine, but in the beta of MX19 it requires root password to unmount. I don't know whether it's a bug in the beta, or whether I could improve the mount command.

tofino_surfer · 10-05-2019, 07:39 AM

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Umounting from the desktop icon. In PCLinuxOS it's fine, but in the beta of MX19 it requires root password to unmount.I don't know whether it's a bug in the beta, or whether I could improve the mount command.

You could try adding users to the mount options. From the mount manpage:

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users  Allow  any  user  to  mount  and to unmount the filesystem, even when some other ordinary user mounted it.
  This option implies the options noexec, nosuid, and nodev
              (unless overridden by subsequent options, as in the option line users,exec,dev,suid).

davecs · 10-05-2019, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by tofino_surfer

You could try adding users to the mount options. From the mount manpage:

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users  Allow  any  user  to  mount  and to unmount the filesystem, even when some other ordinary user mounted it.
  This option implies the options noexec, nosuid, and nodev
              (unless overridden by subsequent options, as in the option line users,exec,dev,suid).

Tried that and various other similar combinations. It's not having it at all. I'm wondering if it's a bug in the MX-linux 19ß3 version, and I've reported it there.

I found the online man-page for mount, and I can't see why it doesn't work.