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thekeymaker Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 15 Aug 2010 Posts: 104
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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 2:29 pm Post subject: auto mount usb to directory by label |
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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?
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thekeymaker Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 15 Aug 2010 Posts: 104
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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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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? |
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