Re: Automounting USB drives
On 19/05/11 13:30, Matt Harrison wrote:
I recently did a base install and then installed a handful of packages
to get myself X and Openbox running on my system using XFE for my file
manager. I am running into an issue where when I plug my external
(NTFS) hard drive in to my machine, it is not automounting like it
would if I had XFCE installed first. I added my user to the plugdev
group and I can manually mount it. However, I would like to have it
automount again without having an entry in /etc/fstab.
Is there a volume manager I can install outside of the DE environment
to get this working again? I have been searching for a couple of days
now but I have not found anything yet.
Thanks!
-Matt
This may/ not be appropriate to your needs, so FWIW, on my Gnome DE I
have set up a USB FreeAgent drive which is automounted at bootup (I'm
the only one using the machine) and refreshes at each login with a link/
icon set up to appear on my desktop.
If that's what you are after, then this may help. This is how I get
this to work, bearing in mind that some of these rules are to keep the
drive loaded so that it is available, because these drives have a habit
of spinning down apparently:
1. Download ntfs-3g from the repos
2. Set up rules
Change the text as you need to for the make, etc., of your drive then
save as 85-usb-hd-fix.rules:
BUS=="scsi",KERNEL=="sd?",SYSFS{vendor}=="Seagate",SYSFS{model}=="FreeAgentDesktop",RUN+="/usr/bin/usbhdfix
%k"
3. Write and save config file for usbhdfix
#!/bin/bash
echo 1024 > /sys/block/$1/device/max_sectors
echo 1 > /sys/block/$1/device/scsi_disk:*/allow_restart
4. Copy these 2 files to their respective places
sudo cp 85-usb-hd-fix.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
sudo cp usbhdfix /usr/bin
5. Initialise
sudo /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /sbin/mount.ntfs mount
This gives you an automounted usb drive with an icon on your desktop and
that is always available to you.
I HTH
AG
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