Automatically mounting USB flash disks/ USB thumb drives
Andy Green
fedora at warmcat.com
Tue Aug 10 13:11:43 UTC 2004
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On Tuesday 10 August 2004 13:35, Daniel Stonier wrote:
> Another way to do it is use the automounter. For example, to automount at
> /mnt/usb/flash
>
> - Create a mount point (directory): /mnt/usb
> - Edit auto.master to include the line
> /mnt/usb /etc/auto.usb --timeout 5
> - Copy auto.misc to auto.usb
> - Comment/delete everything out in auto.usb and include the line
> flash -fstype=ext3 :/dev/sda1
> (Change fstype to whatever you have, I typically format my usb drives as
> soon as I get them)
> - Then run, service autofs start (might want to start this up at bootup,
> easy to run redhat-config-services)
Usbautocam should set up automount for you.
Didier, what is in your /etc/auto.misc and /etc/auto.master?
Is
rpm -q hotplug
showing hotplug installed?
What does uname -r show?
- -Andy
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Automatic actions for USB cameras, cardreaders, memory sticks, MP3 players
http://warmcat.com/usbautocam
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