Re: [Followup]: Basic USB Automounter?
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> From: Mark Allums <mark@allums.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 12:18 PM
> Subject: RE: [Followup]: Basic USB Automounter?
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>> From: Patrick Bartek [mailto:bartek047@yahoo.com]
>> Also, someone suggested usbmount, which I was aware of, but in my
>> reading, it said that it would only mount thumb and external USB hard
>> drives, and not flash cards using a reader. I never tested to see if this
> were
>> true.
>
> In my experience, SD cards are treated like USB drives. On my Eee PC, I
> have run Debian from the SD card slot on a 32GB card. (That was quite a
> while back.) Sometimes, it takes a little sleuthing to figure out what /dev
> node it is.
A single SD card slot seems to work differently than a USB multicard reader that accepts 6 different kinds of cards, and all at once, if you want. I tested one automounter that recognized the reader, but wouldn't automount any cards when inserted. The cards were never even recognized unless the card was in the reader when the reader was plugged in, then it worked. The "problem" seems to be that most of the automounting solutions I've come across depend on the "mounting" support files that come with a full Desktop Environment, whether you're using the desktop or not, to handle the details, the permissions, etc. My set up has none of that. I want to keep it as lean as possible for speed while still meeting my requirements and being easily usable.
> I missed the first of this. Has anyone mentioned pmount?
Yes. And I came across it in my research, too. It's on my list of alternative mounting tools for udev rules in case using the standard mount command results in the device only being accessable by root. Definitely NOT what I want. From what I understand, 'udisks --mount' provides the same functionality while being more feature-rich.
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