> Can you give a bit more detail on the automount side? The usbmount util is dead-simple. It's just a custom udev rule that invokes a simple script. The config file is very verbose, and there are really not a whole lot of options anyway.
Here's the info I added to the Freevo wiki: http://doc.freevo.org/Hardware/CompactFlash#head-7f7deaed368fe8d16c4e3316e97087696caf624e Auto-Mounting USB Storage Devices Now that your Freevo box is up and running, you are probably going to want to make some content available. An easy way to do this is to set the system up to automatically mount/unmount USB drives, thus allowing you to watch movies you've downloaded. I like the usbmount package for this, since it is small, has minimal dependencies, and is really easy to configure. You might also be interested in ivman or some other auto-mount solution. Installing and configuring usbmount is easy: 1. Install usbmount: "sudo apt-get install usbmount" 2. Configure usbmount by editing the file /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf. The file is very well commented, so it should be simple to configure to suit your needs. Don't forget that you need root privileges to edit the file: "sudo vi /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf" 3. Since most USB thumbdrives are formatted as VFAT volumes, you will probably want to configure usbmount to support VFAT partition types. Look for the "FILESYSTEMS" line and add "vfat" to the list of supported types (there will probably be entries for ext2 and ext3 already). 4. The config file warns that VFAT filesystems can be corrupted if not properly unmounted. In my case, I chose to deal with this by mounting the filesystems as read-only. To do this, I modified the "MOUNTOPTIONS" line to read as follows: MOUNTOPTIONS="ro,sync,noexec,nodev,noatime" Note the inclusion of the read-only option, "ro". By doing this, I can easily remove a USB thumbdrive without having to go through the hassle of syncing and unmounting the drive. More importantly, my wife and children can insert and remove USB thumbdrives without having to sync and unmount them! Note: the change to the "MOUNTOPTIONS" line affects all filesystems handled by usbmount. If you want to be more selective, you can modify the "FS_MOUNTOPTIONS" line and specify options that only apply to VFAT partitions. In my case, I want all removable storage devices mounted read-only by deafult, but you may feel differently. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
