Run script on USB thumb drive connection

[Cameron Hutchison]

Bill Moseley <moseley at hank.org> writes:

>It's still getting mounted by gnome (I assume) after the script runs.
>That's the part I'm wondering about -- how to stop that from happening
>for this specific thumb drive.

I use the following to stop auto-mounting of my hot-swap backup hard
drives:

I have created the file /etc/hal/fdi/policy with the following contents:

Adjust the UUIDs for your case.

---8<---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->

<!-- 
  System policy to not automount the backup disks.
-->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">

  <!-- Backup disc 1 - Seagate ST3160811AS 7200.9 160GB -->
  <device>
    <match key="volume.uuid" string="854a1d9e-916d-46af-9ba3-ae0fab3644ab">
      <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
    </match>
  </device>

  <!-- Backup disc 2 - Seagate ST3160811AS 7200.9 160GB -->
  <device>
    <match key="volume.uuid" string="cd630507-37dd-46e8-9bdd-33fdbd0edf42">
      <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
    </match>
  </device>

</deviceinfo>
---8<---