On Mon 21 Nov 2016 at 18:43:20 +0000, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 17:36:19 +0000 > Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > Someone deduced "He wants auto-mounting of the inserted media". The > > evidence isn't there. Putting one's self in the a user's position is > > one thing; putting words into his mouth is another. > > The requirement was for a non-root user to mount an arbitrary > FAT-formatted USB stick partition read-write in a predictable place.
That is a fair summary. (The situation did become a little less clear later on when Mate was mentioned). > One way of achieving this is to monitor /var/log/syslog while plugging > the drive in, observe how the OS identifies the drive, and use this > information to construct a mount statement to be typed into a > command window as root. It's 2016; being root to get information about a plugged-in USB stick and mount it is unnecessary. > Or, since exactly the same procedure is necessary each time, it could > be done by a computer. The computer which the drive had just been > plugged into would be a good choice. Plug in a drive and a large button > appears on the screen, marked 'Mount the drive you just plugged in'. > > While this does not actually constitute automounting, I suggest that it > differs by a single mouse click. And actually, I didn't deduce that > automounting was what the OP wanted, I said that it was what *I* had > working. The point was to demonstrate that software existed to do the > job the OP wanted done, even if I didn't see quite what software that > was. The quote I gave (it's in double quotes) was not from one of your posts. I understood exactly what you said and even responded to your observation that a plugged in USB stick shows instantly in file managers with a very short outline of what is involved. I'll flesh it out with throwing dbus and udev into the mix. The thing about voodoo is that even a hazy understanding of what it does removes its power. -- Brian.