Automounting a USB hard disk in Ubuntu server - how?

[Chris G]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 03:50:25PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:36 +0100, Chris G wrote:
> > 
> > I'm not convinced that things will get automounted (by default) in
> > Ubuntu Server, remember there isn't any GUI running.
> 
> Google is your friend :) I searched for "mount an external usb disk in
> ubuntu server" (without the quotes):
> 
> 
> <http://www.google.com/search?q=mount+an+external+usb+disk+in+ubuntu
> +server>
> 
> First hit: <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=245566>
> 
> It seems you need to load module usb-storage. Do so with "sudo modprobe
> usb-storage", then plug in the drive and see whether it works. If so,
> you can enter "usb-storage" into /etc/modules to make it load on boot.
> 
No, I already have usb-storage, it reports a little higher up dmesg, I
should have included more:-

    [   15.296000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
    [   15.300000] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
    [   15.328000] usb-storage: device found at 2
    [   15.328000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
    [   15.328000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
    [   15.328000] USB Mass Storage support registered.

    [   20.328000] usb-storage: device scan complete
    [   20.328000] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SAMSUNG  HD501LJ               PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
    [   20.328000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
    [   20.328000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
    [   20.328000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00
    [   20.328000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
    [   20.332000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
    [   20.332000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
    [   20.332000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00
    [   20.332000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
    [   20.332000]  sdb:<7>eth0: no IPv6 routers present
    [   24.620000] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir at monad.swb.de).
    [   24.776000] NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory
    [   24.780000] NFSD: starting 90-second grace period
    [   27.832000]  sdb1
    [   27.832000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
    [   27.832000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0

I don't think usb-storage has anything to do with *mounting* the disk
drive, it's just a driver that recognises the disk.

What I need is something to automount the drive after all the above 
has happened.

-- 
Chris Green