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Re: [LUG] Mounting USB external hard drive with same device every time?

 

Rob Beard wrote:

> 
> Thanks for that Robin, it worked!
> 
> The drive is now detected as usbhd*
> 
> All I need to do now is crack automatically mounting the drive when it 
> is plugged in.  By the way, if it helps I'm using Debian 4.0 (text only 
> install).
> 

As part of the udev rules you can run commands i believe? so if you set
up fstab can you then call mount /umount as necessary. Or use an
automounter deamon.

What about the autofs debian package? does the kernel have automount
built in and this is the userspace to go withit i forget!



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