Sanjay Debian wrote:
I'm a n00b who's trying to figure out how to mount USB stuff. I
hear hal will
do just that, but when I run "lshal", I get the following error:
<snip>
I had no idea you have to do so much just to mount usb. On my
unstable debian install I can install my usb flash drive like this
mount -t usbfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
Ah, but I'm no ordinary n00b. I'm a Power-N00b, the most dangerous of
my breed...
But seriously, allow me to clarify my question:
I'm trying to figure out how to automount various USB devices in a
consistent manor such that a generic clueless user can use their own
devices without having to remember whether or not that flash drive is
sdb1 or sdb2, etc..., or for that matter, without the user having to
even know what "mount" means. (After all, if I let users mount stuff,
it's just a matter of time before someone forgets to unmount, and then
they call me wondering why files are broken/missing.)
I have heard that the hal package can be used to automount USB stuff
upon connection, and auto-unmount it upon disconnection, and that it
will even mount it according to the product's name (if that can be
determined).
That sounded exactly like what I wanted, but I've run into a snag with
dbus-1 seg-faulting on startup.
My alternative option is to set up udev to recognize devices and map
them to consistent names in /dev and then add user-mountable entries
in /etc/fstab, but that may require that I create rules files for
/etc/udev/rules.d/ for (potentially) every single device that a user
may bring into my office, which is what I would like to avoid if
possible. It would be sweet if the computer could just figure it out
for itself, hence my interest in hal.
BTW, I'm running Debian sarge w/ 2.6.8-2-686 kernel.
Any help is good help, thanks in advance...
Michael