[rox-users] Re: Mounting removable devices

[Mike H. <mik...@an...>]

Alexander Wagner wrote:

>In gmane.comp.desktop.rox.user, you wrote:
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>>I have the necessary mount data in fstab for a usb flash memory
>>device. 
>>/dev/sdb1 /media/usb1 vfat  
>>pamconsole,fscontext-system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
>>    
>>
>
>Simple question: why do you put all this things in fstab?
>Doesn't it work with just something like
>
>/dev/sdb1   /media/usb1   vfat     user,sync,noauto    0 0
>
>This works for me perfectly (@debian 3.1 sarge and till now
>@redhat up to 9)
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Well the reason was that the machine I've inherited had the cdrom
and floppy devices set up this way in fstab. Since I want the usb
devices to operate in the same way (auto-mount for any user) I
figured that using the same parameters might achieve that. Oh no.
I can mount the usb memory stick as root but it doesn't auto-mount
and I can't mount it unless I'm root.  OK, so I changed fstab to
what you suggest above.  Still can't mount it as any user. I reboot
in case fstab is only scanned at boot. Still can't mount it as any user.

I went looking for instructions for pamconsole but there appear to
be no man pages and searches on google bring up loads of stuff
about some PAM format which is not what I need. I need a
manual to explain how pamconsole works (I think).

>Would suggest some udev-rule though, if you have a 2.6
>kernel. Something like 
>
>BUS="scsi", KERNEL="sd[a-z][0-9]*",                      \
>SYSFS{vendor}="LEXAR", SYSFS{model}="GEYSER JUMPDRIVE",  \
>PROGRAM="/etc/udev/scripts/scsi-devfs.sh %k %b %n",      \
>SYMLINK="usbstick%n %c{2}"
>
>(adopt vendor and model). This would give you some
>/dev/usbstick1 which for me is more convenient for static
>fstab-entries.
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I don't know about udev-rule yet. I'll have to read up on it.

I browsed with google to find suggestions about how to auto-mount
usb memory sticks but so far I've only found specific instructions
for people in organisations where its already been set up for users.
I need to know how to set up the auto-mounting, but every step of
the way seems to require reading through more and more
documentation (much of which appears to be irrelevant) until I run
out of time to pursue it any further.  Can anyone offer a quick
guide?

On RISC OS and Windows I just insert the stick and begin using
it. Thats what I really want on Linux too!

Mike