Re: handling removable media without gnome-volume-manager

[<briand@aracnet.com>]

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:21:20 -0600
Dave Thayer <debian1008610.dmthayer@recursor.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 09:46:05PM -0700, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'd like something where I can encode the behavior for particular
> > devices, i.e. as I'm using the same devices over and over I'd like a
> > way to make sure that the same device gets mapped to the same thing.
> > 
> > Not needing X to be up and running is nice too.
> 
> I use automount with a udev-fired script which generates automount
> maps based upon the usb (or firewire) device's label. 
> 
> For instance, my backup drive is labeled rsnapshot_backup. When I plug
> it in, an automount map is created for /media/auto/rsnapshot_backup/. 
> When unplugged, the map and mount directory is removed. 
> 
> My script still has some rough edges, It contains a fair amount of
> crockery to deal with devices which generate multiple add events, such
> as my ipod.
> 

That seems like a pretty good system.

I'm unclear what the order of execution is.  Does udev create the event
which invokes automount ?

and if automount is executed first, how is it getting invoked ?


Brian