Automounting USB drives on GUI-free server

[Robert Heller]

Look for the "autofs" daemon.  I use it all of the time (I *don't* ever using 
a pointy-clicky file manager, even when I am using X11 otherwise).  I use it 
for all sorts of disks, not just USB drives.  Anything I don't want mounted 
all of the time, but might want to mount "on demand".  It is also great for 
NFS disks too.

At Sun, 04 Sep 2016 17:32:33 +0300 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> 
> 
> Once upon a time in the west, we could easily use a daemon called.. 'automount' to do this kind of auto-mounting.
> I didn't use it for a while, but you could maybe do some searches about it. Could be the daemon you need.
> 
> 
> Le 4 septembre 2016 17:04:10 EAT, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> a écrit :
> >I have an application running on a text-mode-only Ubuntu system
> >(16.04).
> >
> >As far as I can tell, USB drives only automount inside Unity, i.e.,
> >when a GUI is running. However, I need USB drives to automount on boot
> >and when inserted, even when no GUI is running and no-one is logged in.
> >
> >So far my googling has turned up only quite complicated solutions
> >involving dozens of lines of udev rules, but most of these solutions
> >are several years old.
> >
> >I'll go the udev route if I have to, I was just hoping there was an
> >easier way these days.
> >
> >When I insert a USB stick, syslog tells me it has been detected and
> >plumbed; a device /dev/sdb becomes available and I can mount it
> >manually.
> >
> >Regards, K.
> >
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