[SOLVED] mounting an sdcard using a shell script

apolinsky · 10-13-2023, 08:44 AM

I have transferred about 2800 mp3's to a 512 GB sdcard. The card is assigned a different device name on each computer. I would like to have a shell script to determine the device name on each computer and then mount it on the Music directory on my home directory.

Thank you.

michaelk · 10-13-2023, 09:04 AM

Assign the filesystem a label and then have the script mount the card using the label. How to assign a label depends on the type of filesystem.

Quote:

mount -L label /home/username/Music

rkelsen · 10-13-2023, 06:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by apolinsky

The card is assigned a different device name on each computer.

If you look in /run/media/username after the card is mounted, you should find that the card will be mounted there using its FAT volume label.

This should be consistent behaviour across different Linux installations, provided they're all halfway recent.

slac-in-the-box · 10-13-2023, 09:58 PM

The label is a good idea. You can even add an entry for the label in /etc/fstab, and it will automatically mount when you insert the card. But it won't automatically unmount, so be sure to unmount it before removal. Cheers.