[solved] Mounting usb devices as user.

ezzetabi · 2006-12-12 08:56:57

I prepared a line in my /etc/fstab file for allowing users to mount usb devices. And sometime it works and sometime it does not. The point is that the OS randomly (from my point of view) assigns a different /dev/sda? device to the usb key.

Is there a way to allowing user to mount one usb key in any case?

Acid7711 · 2006-12-12 09:07:48

Honestly, I was having trouble with mine in fstab. I removed all entries and let the automounts work their magic. No problems sense.

chrismortimore · 2006-12-12 09:30:48

"pmount" may be of help to you. Or you could use "udev" to give the devices persistent names.

Snarkout · 2006-12-12 13:35:22

Search the wiki for udev - there is a very good article on persistant device naming with udev rules. However, if you don't need that level of granularity and just want things to automount, load dbus and hal in your daemons array, and rock and roll.

ezzetabi · 2006-12-12 21:28:56

I dislike automounting, so I'll try the udev using wiki article.

thanks everyone

Snowman · 2006-12-13 01:12:09

Snarkout was refering to this article:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Per … ice_naming

ezzetabi · 2006-12-13 09:02:59

Ops... Thanks again.

ezzetabi · 2006-12-14 08:47:21

My usb key, the one I use for testing, does not appear nor in /dev/disk/by-label nor in /dev/disk/by-uuid, and setting the fstab entry as by-id won't solve the problem since users have different usb keys...
I am missing something?

Snarkout · 2006-12-14 14:20:44

Is the device detected at all? Do a dmesg tail to see if it found it. In this particular case, the easiest thing might be to use that article you linked to, and setup multiple aliases based on the serial # of the device. The downside of this is that it generally means lots of rules, lots of mountpoints, and needing to know about every device plugged into your machine.

Why exactly are you against using hal, dbus, and (possibly) pmount? It's a hell of a lot less effort for what it seems like you're trying to achieve. Perhaps a better way for me to ask this question is "do you actually have a reason you need a separate static mountpoint for every usb device you plug into the computer?" If all you want to do is allow different people to plug in and use usb devices/drives, then it really seems to me like pmount would be the way to go.

ezzetabi · 2006-12-15 10:01:15

When I posted I did not tried pmount yet. Since adding a tool to my users is always a pain.

me:- no in this case you need to use pmount, not mount...
user:- what? Already you do not use Windows and I have even to understand?!?

But failing the persistent naming way, I tried it. It works flawlessly.
Thanks everyone.

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#1 2006-12-12 08:56:57

[solved] Mounting usb devices as user.

#2 2006-12-12 09:07:48

Re: [solved] Mounting usb devices as user.

#3 2006-12-12 09:30:48

Re: [solved] Mounting usb devices as user.

#4 2006-12-12 13:35:22

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#5 2006-12-12 21:28:56

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