BJ, Some basics: have you made sure to turn on Hotplugging (CONFIG_HOTPUG) in kernel and made udev your hotplugging userland helper? (pointing it in /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug)?
Thanks, Sekhar > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of BJ Opp > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 3:47 AM > To: Friedland, David > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Automounting USB Sticks > > An update on the situation, I've gotten the usb flash drive > automounting, but only if I have it plugged in to the unit during > bootup. I can't get it to automount using hotplug or anything else. > The way I have my fstab and udev mounting happening is the following: > > udev/rules.d/99-mount.rules : > BUS=="usb", SYSFS{product}=="JD FIREFLY", KERNEL=="sd?1", NAME="lexar", > SYMLINK="usbdevices/lexar", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/mountlexar.sh" > > fstab: > /dev/sda1 /media/LEXAR vfat > rw,nodiratime,sync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,fmask=0033,dmask=0033 0 0 > > I think I may have moved around the initialization scripts > within /etc/rc.d/rcS.d to make the mountall script run after all the > udev stuff but I can't quite remember. I tried lots of things before > this one finally worked. Good luck, and if i manage to figure out the > hotplug mounting I'll be sure to post it. > > -BJ > > On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 18:18 -0600, Friedland, David wrote: > > BJ, > > > > I think you're on the right track, but I still don't have it working. > > I'll keep working on this issue and I'm checking with some others in > > TI to see if they can shed any light on this. I'll let you know if I > > make any progress. > > > > Dave > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > From: BJ Opp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 9:31 AM > > To: Friedland, David; [email protected] > > Subject: RE: Automounting USB Sticks > > > > > > > > I've also been fighting with automounting a usb flash drive without > > much success. We've been trying to use udev by adding this line to > > fstab > > > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbflash auto auto,user 0 > > 0 > > > > > > > > And also adding this to a rules a file we created in > > in /etc/udev/rules.d/ by the name of 99-mount.rules > > > > > > > > SUBSYSTEM=="block", SYSFS{manufacturer}=="LEXAR", RUN+="/bin/mount -a" > > > > > > > > For this line I've also tried different device types such as > > BUS=="usb" but still nothing. I know my fstab entry is correct > > because after logging in I can do a "mount -a" and the drive will get > > mounted. Any ideas? Thanks > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Friedland, David > > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:20 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Automounting USB Sticks > > > > > > > > > > I'm wondering if anyone has tackled the issue of having a USB flash > > drive automatically mount to the file system when it is inserted? > > I can do this manually easily enough by: > > > > mkdir /mnt/usbflash > > mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbflash > > > > To make this mount occur automatically, I believe that I need to use > > autofs to do this, but if that's wrong I'd like to know. > > Using autofs, here is what I did... > > > > I inserted the following into /etc/auto.master: > > /mnt/usbflash /etc/auto.usbflash --timeout=30 --ghost > > > > I inserted the following into /etc/auto.usbflash: > > usbflash -fstype=auto,sync :/dev/sda1 > > > > I then: > > mkdir /mnt/usbflash > > /etc/init.d/autofs restart > > > > and this appeared to work. But for some reason, the > > directory /mnt/usbflash is then deleted. And inserting the USB stick > > does not force an automatic mount. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list [email protected] http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source
