Best approach to automount usb drive?

Hi

I want to automount external usb hdd and usb sticks on my pogoplug running Debian (Debian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy)) using the following rules

- mount certain external USB drives (identified by UUID or label) to individuall specific folders read-only
- mount all other esternal USB drives into a directory /media/external/LABEL as *read-only*

Then share the folder /media/external/ using netatalk and samba so thet the hot-plugged devices are available for reading (no problem if I have the above)

My reasoning for read-only is
- the data on the hdd can not be modified accidently
- I can simply unplug the device as I am not writing to it (assuming that nobody is using the device anymore)

When I want to write to the device, I can always ssh into the pogoplug and mount it read-write (or specify an additional rule for a certain drive).

Any suggestions how I can achieve this with as little overhang as possible?

Thanks,

Rainer

rkrug,

- Simple approach: use usbmount (install the usbmount package).
- More complicated approach (and more flexible and powerful): use udev rules.

Also be aware that if you use a remote dekstop (xfce, lxde,...) then the automounting behavior is potentially different when you are in desktop.

-bodhi
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/14/2015 12:03PM by bodhi.

Thanks. I will be using usbmount for the time being and use some shell-scripting magic to manage the mounting of special drives.

Thanks,

Rainer

I ended up using usbmount for all partitions to mount as read-only and adding the partitions I would like to have as read-write in the fstab - usbmount now automounts these as read-write to the specified mount point - perfect.

Thanks,

Rainer

@rkrug - thanks for posting, I always wondered how this was done !

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With desktop, Check the automount with usbmount for correctness/conflicts.

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