Re: Automounting USB drives
On 19/05/11 13:30, Matt Harrison wrote:
I recently did a base install and then installed a handful of packages
to get myself X and Openbox running on my system using XFE for my file
manager. I am running into an issue where when I plug my external
(NTFS) hard drive in to my machine, it is not automounting like it
would if I had XFCE installed first. I added my user to the plugdev
group and I can manually mount it. However, I would like to have it
automount again without having an entry in /etc/fstab.
Is there a volume manager I can install outside of the DE environment
to get this working again? I have been searching for a couple of days
now but I have not found anything yet.
Thanks!
-Matt
This may/ not be appropriate to your needs, so FWIW, on my Gnome DE I
have set up a USB FreeAgent drive which is automounted at bootup (I'm
the only one using the machine) and refreshes at each login with a link/
icon set up to appear on my desktop.
If that's what you are after, then this may help. This is how I get
this to work, bearing in mind that some of these rules are to keep the
drive loaded so that it is available, because these drives have a habit
of spinning down apparently:
1. Download ntfs-3g from the repos
2. Set up rules
Change the text as you need to for the make, etc., of your drive then
save as 85-usb-hd-fix.rules:
BUS=="scsi",KERNEL=="sd?",SYSFS{vendor}=="Seagate",SYSFS{model}=="FreeAgentDesktop",RUN+="/usr/bin/usbhdfix
%k"
3. Write and save config file for usbhdfix
#!/bin/bash
echo 1024 > /sys/block/$1/device/max_sectors
echo 1 > /sys/block/$1/device/scsi_disk:*/allow_restart
4. Copy these 2 files to their respective places
sudo cp 85-usb-hd-fix.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
sudo cp usbhdfix /usr/bin
5. Initialise
sudo /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /sbin/mount.ntfs mount
This gives you an automounted usb drive with an icon on your desktop and
that is always available to you.
I HTH
AG
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Re: Automounting USB drives
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:30:04AM -0400, Matt Harrison wrote: > I recently did a base install and then installed a handful of packages > to get myself X and Openbox running on my system using XFE for my file > manager. I am running into an issue where when I plug my external > (NTFS) hard drive in to my machine, it is not automounting like it > would if I had XFCE installed first. I added my user to the plugdev > group and I can manually mount it. However, I would like to have it > automount again without having an entry in /etc/fstab. > > Is there a volume manager I can install outside of the DE environment > to get this working again? I have been searching for a couple of days > now but I have not found anything yet. > Pcmanfm (a file manager) allows you to mount and unmount volumes by clicking on them. It's not automatic, but it's very easy. I see "gnome-volume-manager" in the repositories. Maybe it's possible to install that w/o installing most of gnome? You'd have to edit your .config/openbox/autostart.sh file to make sure it runs on login. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110519235231.gb16...@aurora.owens.net
Re: Automounting USB drives
On Thu 19 May 2011 at 08:30:04 -0400, Matt Harrison wrote: > Is there a volume manager I can install outside of the DE environment > to get this working again? I have been searching for a couple of days > now but I have not found anything yet. autofs has been mentioned. There is also thunar-volman, but thunar comes with it and you may not want that. ivman is another possibility. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110519162513.GB3027@desktop
Re: Automounting USB drives
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2011 08:30:04 -0400, Matt Harrison wrote: > > (...) > >> Is there a volume manager I can install outside of the DE environment to >> get this working again? I have been searching for a couple of days now >> but I have not found anything yet. > > If you don't want to manually deal with udev and its rules, you could > consider "halevt" or "pmount". > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón Notice autofs is a light and pretty good option... -- Javier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/banlktik-vubnjgd2ppeoewjovfq7efo...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Automounting USB drives
On Thu, 19 May 2011 08:30:04 -0400, Matt Harrison wrote: (...) > Is there a volume manager I can install outside of the DE environment to > get this working again? I have been searching for a couple of days now > but I have not found anything yet. If you don't want to manually deal with udev and its rules, you could consider "halevt" or "pmount". Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.19.13.10...@gmail.com
