On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:01:16 -0400, Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote:
> I want my USB drive to show up mounted on /media/<some label> after I
plug
> it in.
> I don't mind having to type something on the command line to trigger it.
>
> In Solaris, I put a CD/Floppy/USB in and type "volcheck". Then it checks
> for the presence of something and mounts it.
> I can type df and see where it mounts it. I don't run mount or anything
> else that requires root. If I want to use a file manager, I can. But I
> don't have to.
>
> That's what I want.
>
> Here's the scenario:
> Server in basement w/o monitor. No one is logged in. No gnome, no
> KDE,
> no X11 anything
> Plug USB in (ummmm tuesday)
> login remotely via SSH (friday?)
> want to transfer files to USB from server.
> eject USB device (monday)
> grab USB & put in backpack on way out door
>
>
> When I'm using Ubuntu/Gnome or Fedora/Gnome, I usually have to fire up
> thunar or some other GUI file manager and the device then gets mounted
and
> I
> quit the file manager and use the command line. They don't work so well
on
> a slow SSH tunnel.
>
>
> So, does anyone know how to have linux mount the USB drives to /media
like
> the GUI file managers do w/o using the mount command?
>
> FWIW, I'm using Fedora 12 but I should be able to do this in Ubuntu 10.04
> as
> well. And I'm *not* using a GUI tool to do it, so please no Gnome/KDE or
> "Click on System -> ..." or anything else using a mouse.
Well, you could always write a simple bash script to do the mount and if it
is going to be same day/time every week use cron to run bash script. Hope
that helps.
--
Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org
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