On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Derek Reid wrote:
> I'd like to mount my usb flash drive exclusively on /mnt but I'm not
> sure if this is possible...
Understood that the autofs issue is mounting on an immediate subdirectory
of the root, but... The USB drive can be mounted when you first refer to
it (using autofs), or when it's hotplugged. This latter way is what
mainstream distro integrators are doing. If you're running KDE or Gnome,
then gnome-volume-manager should be started. It monitors hotplug messages
and should take care of telling haldaemon to mount a newly inserted device
or media (on /media/whatever; probably you can influence this mount point
choice). But I assume you're using neither Desktop Environment.
I have some notes on gotcha's, including this one. Search for "Gnome"
in this document, about halfway through.
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/documents/bugfix.html
The only thing I haven't figured out is, how do you unmount the USB drive,
short of yanking it out while still mounted, which seems like a recipe for
disaster. On a CD drive you can press the eject button and the appropriate
hot(un)plug message will be sent, but not for USB storage.
Hope this is useful!
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