how to change behavior for auto mount of usb drives in 14.04

Marius Gedminas marius at pov.lt
Mon Nov 10 17:08:14 UTC 2014


On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 09:22:29AM -0600, Linda wrote:
> I am not sure what the correct terminology is for what I want to do
> so I'm having trouble searching for a solution. In 12.04 if I put in
> a usb drive it automounted it as /media/drivename. Now in 14.04 it
> mounts drives as /media/username/drivename.  I have a ton of scripts
> that use /media/drivename. Is there a way to change the behavior of
> automount so it goes back to mounting drives as  /media/drivename ?

You could add an udev rule that sets the UDISKS_FILESYSTEM_SHARED
property to 1:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/utopic/en/man8/udisks.8.html#contenttoc4

Here's an example:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/udisks#udisks2:_mount_to_.2Fmedia

HTH,
Marius Gedminas
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