Procedure on mounting USB/hotplug devices

[Casey Stamper]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Casey Stamper wrote:
>> Tim wrote:
>>> I tend to agree.  You paint yourself into a corner trying to write fixed
>>> rules for non-fixed media.
>>>
>> Especially when you write in those fixed rules and boot the system w/out
>> the device in there and it hangs for a good long while chewing on that
>> line in fstab.
>>
> That is why you use the noauto option in the fstab entry. You have
> to run mount manually after plugging in the drive, but you can set
> it so the user can do that.
> 
> If you do not want to use gnome-mount, then you could always fall
> back on an older method. I used to have udev rules that created
> meaningful symlinks when plugging in a USB drive. The fstab rules
> would then use the symlink instead of a specific SCSI drive. (You
> can also have udev run a command to mount the device when it is
> deetected, but I didn't bother with that.)  The thing is, you can
> have udev create entrys like /dev/pny128 /dev/pny1281 when you plug
> in your PNY 128M pen drive, and have a fstab entry that lats a user
> mount /dev/pny1281. The user runs mount /mnt/pny128 or mount
> /media/pny128 and the device gets mounted.
> 
> Mikkel
> 
Still a bit cumbersome for the "normal" user, yes? I know it's trivial 
for most of us on the list as is the whole manual mount process but if 
we're ever to have a wider user base, there should be a more 
user-friendly technique.

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