On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Joseph Smith <j...@settoplinux.org> wrote:
> > > > 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. > > Maybe I should have said "some random time" and "random time + more random". The times are not important. I plug a random drive into the server, sometime later login via SSH to transfer files to the drive, eject when I finish, grab the drive on the next swing by the server. The GUIs are using something. There must be a way to scan the bus & mount that the GUIs do. And there must be a way to manualy run the scan instead of polling or reacting to an event/interrupt. I don't mind writing a script around that.
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