Re: [Followup]: Basic USB Automounter?
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:53:29 -0800 (PST)
Patrick Bartek <bartek047@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> > 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
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> > I missed the first of this. Has anyone mentioned pmount?
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> 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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The story will get even more problematic when you want to boot your
machine with the USB devices are already connected ...
Please post a message containing SOLVED when you find out!
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