On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Sandra Bonus wrote:
> I'm not sure if this question is an autofs question or perhaps for some
> other software component.
On a desktop or laptop sytem this would be handled by "the new hotplug":
haldaemon, dbus and gnome-volume-manager.
> ...This mounts one drive as /misc/usb
> This works fine except it would be ideal if each drive actually mounted as
> /misc/HDD1 and /misc/HDD2 so that scripts can more easily differentiate
> the disks
Autofs mounts the drive when you refer to it. I think what you really want
is to mount it when hotplugged. Hal is smart enough to read the volume
label, if there is one, and create a same-name mount point. The default
would be /media/$THE_LABEL (e.g. /media/HDD1).
> If I log in using Gnome then this seems to have no problem mounting each
> drive and placing an icon on the desktop using the volume label. However,
> I almost never use Gnome and the machine in question is a server.
As it happens, I also use neither Gnome nor KDE as my window manager, and I
recently posted what I did to make it mount upon hotplug. Since you want a
server-wide hotplug manager, rather than specific to one user (me) at the
console, you'll need to be creative to start it up, e.g. make a new boot
script.
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