Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

[Adeodato Simó <asp16@alu.ua.es>]

* Martin Dickopp [Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:22:22 +0200]:
> martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> writes:

> > Anyway, couldn't you possibly create a little tool which would start
> > a command after remounting the device async, and mount it sync
> > again once the command stopped? Then I could say something like:

> >   fastusb rsync -a ~/ /media/usb

> I can do that, but in order to be useful for ordinary (non-root) users,
> the tool would have to be setuid root, so that it can do the remounting.
> This requires some careful programming, i.e. it'll take some time.

  I'm not much into this kind of things, but you may find this of some
  interest (I think):

    ITP: pmount: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/10/msg00802.html

  the scenario your package tries to solve seems so common that major
  development is being put into solving it.

  hth,

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