auto-mounting of removable media

Bryan Liles bryan at osesm.com
Sun Apr 3 07:10:51 UTC 2005


I would have a look at the hotplug subsystem first.   

On Saturday 02 April 2005 08:45 pm, Matt Price wrote:
> [the below didn't show up after several hours.  apologies if it
> double-posts]
>
> hey there,
>
> can someone explain to me how ubuntu manages the automatic mounting of
> removable devices like usb flash drives, cameras, pdas, etc?  I am
> trying to get udev working on a vanilla debian sid install and would like
> to have automounting set up -- ubuntu seems to do this beautifully,
> but I don't have a working system on hand right now.
>
> Even better would be to have a slightly mor complex scripte -- e.g.,
> when my cmaera is loaded and recognized, it not only automatically
> mounts on /mnt/camera but also calls some script that maybe copies any
> new photos to a partiular directory or something.
>
> So if you could point me to some docs that'd be great too!
>
> thanks,
>
> matt
>
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