Re: Mounting USB stuff
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 17:22 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote:
> 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...
GNOME or KDE? With GNOME 2.10+ and gnome-volume-manager, I just
plug in the pen drive, it automounts, an icon appears on the
desktop and nautilus it up.
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