How to automatically mount an USB device on plugin-time on an already running system?
I use the usbmount
package to automount USB drives on my Ubuntu server install. I have confirmed that the package exists for Wheezy too. Recently also added for Jessie.
sudo apt-get install usbmount
usbmount
will automount hfsplus, vfat, and ext (2, 3, and 4) file systems. You can configure it to mount more/different file systems in /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf
. By default it mounts these file systems with the sync,noexec,nodev,noatime,nodiratime
options, however this can also be changed in the aforementioned configuration file.
usbmount
also supports custom mount options for different file system types and custom mountpoints.
You could use gnome-volume-manager
to automount. You can reconfigure it a bit using gnome-volume-properties
.
screenshot
If you're in runlevel 3 I don't believe this is an option. You could however coax udev
into doing the mounting for you in a similar fashion.
1. add a file automount.rules
in /etc/udev/rules.d
2. add the following lines to automount.rules
automount.rules
# automounting usb flash drives
# umask is used to allow every user to write on the stick
# we use --sync in order to enable physical removing of mounted memory sticks -- this is OK for fat-based sticks
# I don't automount sda since in my system this is the internal hard drive
# depending on your hardware config, usb sticks might be other devices than sdb*
ACTION=="add",KERNEL=="sdb*", RUN+="/usr/bin/pmount --sync --umask 000 %k"
ACTION=="remove", KERNEL=="sdb*", RUN+="/usr/bin/pumount %k"
ACTION=="add",KERNEL=="sdc*", RUN+="/usr/bin/pmount --sync --umask 000 %k"
ACTION=="remove", KERNEL=="sdc*", RUN+="/usr/bin/pumount %k"
3. reload the udev rules:
udevadm control --reload-rules
gnome-disk-utility
I found the new name of gnome-volume-manager
BTW. It's called gnome-disk-utility in CentOS6, I just confirmed that that RPM is in the default yum repos.
This U&L Q lead me to it: USB storage devices aren't automatically mounted when inserted on a fresh install of Debian 6.0.
Do the following command to find it:
$ yum search gnome-disk-utility*
gnome-disk-utility-devel.i686 : Development files for gnome-disk-utility-libs
gnome-disk-utility-devel.x86_64 : Development files for gnome-disk-utility-libs
gnome-disk-utility-ui-devel.i686 : Development files for gnome-disk-utility-ui-libs
gnome-disk-utility-ui-devel.x86_64 : Development files for gnome-disk-utility-ui-libs
gnome-disk-utility.x86_64 : Disk management application
gnome-disk-utility-libs.i686 : Shared libraries used by Palimpsest
gnome-disk-utility-libs.x86_64 : Shared libraries used by Palimpsest
gnome-disk-utility-ui-libs.i686 : Shared libraries used by Palimpsest
gnome-disk-utility-ui-libs.x86_64 : Shared libraries used by Palimpsest
References
- automounting usb flash drives on linux with udev and pmount