On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 17:09:43 -0500, James Colby wrote:

> I was wondering if anybody knew of a package or a method that I could
> use to detect when a USB mass storage device is attached to my PC. 
> What I would like to be able to do is to write a small script that
> would mount my USB mass storage device, sync up a directory, and then
> unmount the device everytime I plug my USB drive into the computer.

Udev will take care of this. all you need is a udev rule that matches the
particular device and calls a script that carries out the actions you
want. See http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php for plenty on writing
udev rules.


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Neil Bothwick

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