[SOLVED] How to automount USB drives with flush option using udiskie?

PL_kolek · 2014-07-26 18:13:36

I am using udiskie to automount all removable media and it works great. I have both udisks and udisks2 installed, but as udiskie depends on udisks, I guess it's what is used for mounting. There is one problem: whenever I cp or rsync some files to my pendrive, the command ends too quick and I have to wait after issuing udiskie-umount for the copy to finish. As I found out, the flush option should be the solution.

kolzi@kolzi-laptop ~  % mount | grep USB                                                                                                                                                      :(
/dev/sdb1 on /media/USB DISK type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0022,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks)

This is after udiskie mounted my drive, as you can see there is no flush option, so I suppose async is chosen as the default. If I mount it by hand with -o flush, it shows up.

I know this question was asked a hundred of times (I've seen a couple already) but no thread I found contained the answer. Where and how should I configure my system to mount all USB media with flush option?

Last edited by PL_kolek (2014-07-26 21:05:16)

karol · 2014-07-26 18:21:37

You can set mount options with udiskie https://github.com/coldfix/udiskie/blob … .8.txt#L98

jasonwryan · 2014-07-26 19:43:39

man udiskie | less -p configuration

PL_kolek · 2014-07-26 21:09:19

Thank you, it worked! I checked Arch wiki and Google, but forgot about man... Shame on me. What's even worse, I had ~/.config/udiskie/filters.conf which did exactly what I wanted. It must have stopped after some update.

karol · 2014-07-26 21:22:51

I had to run

man udiskie | less -ip ^configuration

to get straight to the right part.

jasonwryan · 2014-07-26 21:26:37

It's a short man page; I figured a general pointer was sufficient...

karol · 2014-07-26 21:39:26

I still have nightmares about that time I was searching bash man page for 'invocation' ... a couple times ... before I figured out I had to make the search case-insensitive.
Another "funny" thing:

$ man bash | less -pi invocation
invocation: No such file or directory

Last edited by karol (2014-07-26 21:40:22)

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#1 2014-07-26 18:13:36

[SOLVED] How to automount USB drives with flush option using udiskie?

#2 2014-07-26 18:21:37

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#3 2014-07-26 19:43:39

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#4 2014-07-26 21:09:19

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