[ubuntu-nz] How to mount USB drive when no-one is logged in?

[Jason Taylor]

You can write udev rules for just this type if thing
udev would then create a known symlink to the correct device for you.

I do this for myth myth box to stop /dev/video0 and /dev/video1
swapping around (very annoying behaviour, mythbuntu guys are working
on it)

I keep thinking there needs to be a UI for writing udev rules... I
have a python cli script some where around, its made for video cards
so it may need some tweaking..

http://rafb.net/p/VydgRA52.html

Jason Taylor


2008/5/1 Bruce Kingsbury <zcat at zcat.geek.nz>:
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> > How would you automate that in an unattended script?  I imagine grepping
> > dmesg (or /var/log/messages) would return entries for drives already
> > disconnected some time ago?
> >
> >
>
> There's supposed to be stuff in udev for handling this, but I'm a bit vague
> about how it works.. It wouldn't be too hard to write a script that follows
> (tail -f) /var/log/messages and does the appropriate thing whenever a USB
> drive is connected.
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