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So I have a shiny new 512 MB Memory stick that I would like to use on my
Gentoo box (and others)

The usual

root@foo ~ # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb/

works, but is is only accessible by root, and I have to open up a
console to use it. No big problem, but how do I make it mount
automatically as well as making it available to users?

Is there somehing in Portage that can help me do this?

My kernel har Kernel automounter support and USB support (obviously
since I can mount manually)

Thanks in advance

--
/ray

Raymond Baastad wrote:
> So I have a shiny new 512 MB Memory stick
> [snip]
> how do I make it mount
> automatically as well as making it available to users?

udev + hald + (Gnome or KDE)

Works a treat.

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Ben M.

Ben Measures wrote:

> udev + hald + (Gnome or KDE)
>
> Works a treat.

Udev already installed.
Emerged hal + started it.

Insert Memory stick, no go.

Check /var/log/everything/current and find:
Sep 16 15:00:23 [kernel] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using
ehci_hcd and address 3

Sep 16 15:00:23 [kernel] scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices

Sep 16 15:00:24 [hald] Timed out waiting for hotplug event 990. Rebasing
to 991

Sep 16 15:00:28 [kernel] Vendor: Sony Model: Storage Media
Rev: 0100

Sep 16 15:00:28 [kernel] Type: Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 00

Sep 16 15:00:28 [kernel] SCSI device sda: 1014784 512-byte hdwr sectors
(520 MB)

Sep 16 15:00:28 [kernel] sda: Write Protect is off

Sep 16 15:00:28 [kernel] sda: assuming drive cache: write through

Sep 16 15:00:28 [kernel] SCSI device sda: 1014784 512-byte hdwr sectors
(520 MB) Sep 16 15:00:28 [kernel] sda: Write Protect is off

Sep 16 15:00:28 [kernel] sda: assuming drive cache: write through

Sep 16 15:00:28 [kernel] Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1,
channel 0, id 0, lun 0

Sep 16 15:00:28 [kernel] Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0,
id 0, lun 0, type 0 Sep 16 15:00:28 [scsi.agent] disk at
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-5/1-5:1.0/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0
- Last output repeated twice -

Sep 16 15:00:29 [fstab-sync] added mount point /media/usbdisk for
/dev/sda1 Sep 16 15:00:54 [hald] Timed out waiting for hotplug event
999. Rebasing to 992

Sep 16 15:00:56 [hald] Timed out waiting for hotplug event 993. Rebasing
to 994

So it seems to me that I am almost there, but may lack kernel support
for something. (I run linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r5)

Thanks in advance

--
/ray

Raymond Baastad said something like a ...


> The usual
>
> root@foo ~ # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb/


HAL+udev+KDE were of little use to me - I unmerged HAL (D-DUS and other item
last night) - udev is fine. HAL kept assigning hdd to what should have been
hdc, thereby leaving me with a DVD-ROM assigned as a CDROM and no
CDROM/burner. So, I set up fstab as follows and can use everything
- including my usbstick:

/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hda4 /home ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/dvd auto noauto,user,ro 0 0
/dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
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Just a supposition, wouldn't it be enough using just udev?

I mean if you add a row in fstab

### /etc/fstab
....
/dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
....
### EOF

then probably it would be enough to add a line for running a program
when the stick was plugged in

### /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
....
BUS="scsi", KERNEL="sda", ACTION="add", PROGRAM="/sbin/mount
/mnt/usbstick"
....
### EOF

is it possible? of course maybe it would be better to add a user rule
for the particular usbstick model...

Hekaton Keires wrote:
> Just a supposition, wouldn't it be enough using just udev?
>
> [...]
>
> BUS="scsi", KERNEL="sda", ACTION="add", PROGRAM="/sbin/mount
> /mnt/usbstick"

Theoretically yes, though I suspect an immediate mount on plugin will
fail because USB sticks usually need time to settle. That said, if you
add a few seconds sleep I wouldn't expect any problems there.

--
Ben M.

Ben Measures wrote:
> Hekaton Keires wrote:
>
>>Just a supposition, wouldn't it be enough using just udev?
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>BUS="scsi", KERNEL="sda", ACTION="add", PROGRAM="/sbin/mount
>>/mnt/usbstick"
>
>
> Theoretically yes, though I suspect an immediate mount on plugin will
> fail because USB sticks usually need time to settle. That said, if you
> add a few seconds sleep I wouldn't expect any problems there.
>

And the syntax would be?

--
/ray

Thou shalt not meddle in the affairs of dragons
for thou art crunchy and go well with ketchup

Hekaton Keires said something like a ...


> Just a supposition, wouldn't it be enough using just udev?
>
> I mean if you add a row in fstab
>
> ### /etc/fstab
> ...
> /dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
> ...

As you likely know, I have the same line in my fstab and use udev only. What
I haven't said is I added USB to my user group, plus, in /mnt mkdir usbdisk
and set it as follows for permissions:
drwxr-xrwx 3 root root 1024 Sep 17 11:20 usbdisk

HTH
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Three kinds of people there are: They who are in the box,
they who are outside the box, and they who know there is no box !!!!

Ben Measures wrote:
> Raymond Baastad wrote:
>
>>So I have a shiny new 512 MB Memory stick
>>[snip]
>>how do I make it mount
>>automatically as well as making it available to users?
>
>
> udev + hald + (Gnome or KDE)
>
> Works a treat.
>

Looked a litle at the config and did some tweaking to get udev working
properly.

I now get the mountpoint, but somehow it does not mount.

Log enclosed

Sep 17 19:38:46 [kernel] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using
ehci_hcd and address 10
Sep 17 19:38:47 [kernel] scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] Vendor: TinyDisk Model: 2004-11-25
Rev: 2.00
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] Type: Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] : Current: sense key=0x6
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] ASC=0x28 ASCQ=0x0
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] sda : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] sd: Current: sense key=0x6
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] ASC=0x28 ASCQ=0x0
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] : Current: sense key=0x6
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] ASC=0x28 ASCQ=0x0
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] sda : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] sd: Current: sense key=0x6
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] ASC=0x28 ASCQ=0x0
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors
(131 MB)
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] sda: Write Protect is off
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi8,
channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Sep 17 19:38:52 [kernel] Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi8, channel 0,
id 0, lun 0, type 0
Sep 17 19:38:52 [scsi.agent] disk at
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-5/1-5:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0
Sep 17 19:38:53 [fstab-sync] added mount point /media/usbdisk for /dev/sda1


mount command gives:

root@foo ~ $ mount
/dev/hda2 on / type xfs (rw,noatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
/dev/hdb1 on /home type xfs (rw,noatime)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,devmode=0664,devgid=85)

try a mount -a, but still nothing.

What am I doing wrong here?

--
/raymond

Thou shalt not meddle in the affairs of dragons
for thou art crunchy and go well with ketchup

Raymond Baastad said something like a ...

[...]
> Sep 17 19:38:53 [fstab-sync] added mount point /media/usbdisk for
> /dev/sda1

Check permissions for /media/usbdisk - had to adjust mine to drwxr-xrwx .
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Three kinds of people there are: They who are in the box,
they who are outside the box, and they who know there is no box !!!!