[it works now] Re: how to get a mounted USB stick icon on desktop
Apparently, _H. S._, on 29/10/04 15:25,typed:
I am using udev to detect and mount a USB external floppy drive. When I
mount the floppy drive, an icon appears on the desktop and when I umount
it, it dissappears. Recently I added a udev rule to mount a USB stick in
a similar fashion but I am not getting the icon for the mounted USB
stick on the desktop. What am I missing here? I also mount/umount the
'disk mounter' utility of gnome panels.
Running Debian Unstable on Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop with kernel 2.6.7.
{~}> dpkg -l udev
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
ii udev 0.040-1 /dev/ management
daemon
{~}> lsmod | grep us
mousedev 10704 1
psmouse 20616 0
usbcore 117440 4 uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
{~}> lsmod | grep scsi
scsi_mod 127492 1 sd_mod
Thanks,
->HS
I again tried plugging in the USB stick and lo and behold, there was the
icon on the desktop with label "usbstick" (the same as it's mount
point). Now what did I change? Nothing. Didn't change anything in
gnome-volume-manager even. I think when I rebooted the laptop this
morning everything fell into place (I had made my udev rules yesterday
-- and that is all I did, didn't change anything else in Sid).
Here is what I have installed (for others who are trying to get mounted
icons on desktop):
{~}> dpkg -l hotplug udev hal gnome-vol* gnome-desk*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-====================-====================-========================================================
ii hotplug 0.0.20040329-16 Linux Hotplug Scripts
ii udev 0.040-1 /dev/ management daemon
ii hal 0.2.98-6 Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii gnome-volume-manager 1.0.2-3 GNOME daemon to auto-mount
and manage media devices
un gnome-desktop <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-desktop-data 2.6.1-2 Common files for GNOME 2
desktop apps
pn gnome-desktop-enviro <none> (no description available)
Here are my udev rules
#--------------------------------
{~}> cat /etc/udev/rules.d/udev_hs_inspiron5160.rules
#Rules created by HS,29Oct,2004, for the Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop.
#In these rules, whatever devices I create, I give them a prefix of
"hs-" just
#to keep them separate from system devices. Not sure if this is
necessary but
#just in case ...
#rule for the USB floppy drive
#to find out info about this, plug it in any USB port of laptop and give
#the command "udevinfo -a -p /sys/block/sd[ab]" where [ab] means either
a or b
#here.
BUS="usb", KERNEL="sd?", SYSFS{product}="TEAC*", NAME="hs-floppy-%k",
SYMLINK="hs-fd-usb"
#the following rule is for the Lexar 256MB jump drive
BUS="usb", KERNEL="sd*", SYSFS{product}="JUMPDRIVE ELITE",
NAME="hs-jd-%k", SYMLINK="hs-jd-usb%n"
#--------------------------------
And here is my /etc/fstab file:
#--------------------------------
{~}> cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc7 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hdc6 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdc11 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdc9 /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdc8 /usr ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdc10 /var ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdc12 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
#/dev/sda /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hs-fd-usb /media/floppy auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
#the following it to mound USB Jump drive from udev created symlinks
/dev/hs-jd-usb /media/usbstick auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
#--------------------------------
I have configures my desktop to mount a 6-in-1 Sandisk memory card as
well. If anyone one wants help in that, just let me know. And if anyone
has suggestions feel free to share.
GL,
->HS
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