Automounting a USB hard disk in Ubuntu server - how?

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:43:22 +0100
Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

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

Have a look at the "usbmount" package. ( apt-cache show usbmount)

It creates entries for usb in /media , and automounts devices there
( by default /media/usb0 for the first device, then  /media/usb1,2 etc )

If you need to mount FAT file systems, you can configure that in
/etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf

The file is well commented, the addition is a copy-paste, and you only
need this edit if you are not using ext2, ext3 for your usb drive(s)

-- 
Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>