auto mount usb to directory by label

[thekeymaker]

I am a little confused on how to go about this, so I figured if anyone has done this, they might have some advice.

I have a media server, and on it the media files I want to share are under the path:

/share

It’s a directory I made to keep everything organized. Under this directory, besides my media, I also have the following directories:

/share/usb
/share/cd-dvd

I would like to be able to insert a usb flash drive into the media server and have udev populate it in /dev, but I would like to also have it show up with a directory of the drives label under /share/usb. So, for example, if I were to plug in two flash drives labeled Flash1 and Flash2, they would be mounted respectfully like so:

/share/usb/Flash1
/share/usb/Flash2

Plus I would like the data to by synced all the time so I could just pull the drive out when I was done with it. The same would apply to the cd-dvd drive.

What would be the best way to go about this?

I could write udev rules to make the usb’s always mount in /dev to /dev/usb-by-label/ and then bind that location to /share/usb, but is there a better way?

What do you think?

As always, thank you to all who participate!

[thekeymaker]

After doing some more research I think this might be the best option. I haven't got to try this yet, but here is my rough put together version.

Add udev rule:
ACTION=="add", BUS==”usb”, KERNEL==”sd[a-z]*", SYMLINK+="media/%k" RUN+="script %k" ## run script and pass %k in as argument

This should, from what I have read, take any usb device and mount it to /dev/media/%k. Then I would run the script that would essentially do this:

#!/bin/bash
mkdir /share/usb/$1
mount -o sync /dev/media/$1 /share/usb/$1

And then I would also need another rule and script to delete the directory once it was removed.

Can anyone think of anything better?