On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:16:59 -0600 Dave Thayer <debian1008818.dmtha...@recursor.net> wrote:
> Autofs starts up the automount daemons at bootup. One is configured to > use the map file /etc/auto.removable. This is done by adding the > following line to /etc/auto.master: > > /media/auto /etc/auto.removable --timeout=2 --ghost > > This is a very important detail which I inadvertantly left out of my > previoust post. It tells automount to create a directory under > /media/auto for each mapping in /etc/auto.removable. My apologies for > neglecting to mention it earlier. thanks for clarifying. > > When a usb or firewire device is plugged-in or unplugged, the rule > file I attached earlier checks if it it is a filesystem, and if so the rule file is a udev rule file, right ? Doesn't this mean that in the case of a specific device, you can simply match the device exactly and then mount it to a static mount point ? > runs the script /usr/local/bin/removable_drive_handler which checks if > the event is an add or remove, and then adds or removes lines from the > autofs map file /etc/auto.removable. It then sends a SIGHUP signal to > the automount process causing it to reload the > new /etc/auto.removable. > > Some devices such as my ipod generate spurious device names during > plugging, so there's a delayed test of the mountpoint, and if it's > bogus autofs will remove it. > > This script contains more than its fair share of crockery, and could > use improvement, but it works for me. > This seems like one of those problems which should have been solved a long time ago. t's not clear to me why the gnome volume manager doesn't have a command-line backend, as a separate package from what the gui does. Rolling this stuff into something like nautilus is even worse. Thanks again. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100329222318.6646f...@windy.deldotd.com