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I used to be able to have my usb pen drive auto mount when inserted using hotplug and a small script in 9.1, but it's not working with 10. The script in question is located at /etc/hotplug/usb/usb-storage and it looks like:
Code:
dori@darkstar:~$ cat /etc/hotplug/usb/usb-storage
#!/bin/sh
if [ "${ACTION}" = "add" ]; then
mount -t vfat -o uid=dori /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb128
cp /var/run/usb/remover $REMOVER
fi
the copy command works, and if I run the mount command by hand after the message in /var/log/messages saying "creating device node sda1", the drive mounts fine and I can use it.
Is there a way to check if the mount error is quitting with some error? What else could be wrong?
Ah, thank you, yes there was an error: "mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist" it appears that the device is getting created after this script is called. I put a date command in the script and it printed Sat Jun 26 11:26:15 CDT 2004, meanwhile in /var/log/messages I see
Code:
Jun 26 11:26:15 darkstar kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 20
Jun 26 11:26:15 darkstar kernel: scsi18 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jun 26 11:26:15 darkstar scsi.agent[6388]: how to add device type= at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host18/18:0:0:0 ??
Jun 26 11:26:15 darkstar kernel: Vendor: Model: USB DISK 2.0 Rev: 1.1b
Jun 26 11:26:15 darkstar kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jun 26 11:26:15 darkstar kernel: SCSI device sda: 253952 512-byte hdwr sectors (130 MB)
Jun 26 11:26:15 darkstar kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled
Jun 26 11:26:15 darkstar kernel: sda: sda1
Jun 26 11:26:15 darkstar kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi18, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jun 26 11:26:17 darkstar udev[6427]: creating device node '/dev/sda'
Jun 26 11:26:17 darkstar udev[6428]: creating device node '/dev/sda1'
One that *might* work, but might not is putting a sleep 5 command before the mount command. That should halt the script for 5 seconds and hopefully give udev enough time to create the device node.
That doesn't work, HuMJohn. He's using a 2.6 kernel with udev.
Using the above combination, the /dev directory is created dynamically by the udev daemon as devices are added and removed from the system. Using that script might work temporarily, but probably won't work upon reboot.
dori, if you're interested, have a look at my thread on Project Utopia and Slackware 10. One of the uses of those packages is userland automounting.
how do I start nautilus when the usb pen drive is added through this script. When I put the command in the script, it throws and error saying "... cannot open display: "
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