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From: Maximilian Gass <maximilian.gass@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting when a USB device is attached
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 23:35:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060205223528.GA10590@kaoskiste> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c001995e0602051409l723aa2b9xeefc52365a740438@mail.gmail.com>

On 17:09 Sun 05 Feb     , James Colby wrote:
> List members -
> 
> I was wondering if anybody knew of a package or a method that I could
> use to detect when a USB mass storage device is attached to my PC. 
> What I would like to be able to do is to write a small script that
> would mount my USB mass storage device, sync up a directory, and then
> unmount the device everytime I plug my USB drive into the computer.
> 
> I know this isn't exactly a gentoo question, but my PC is running
> gentoo linux so I thought that I would try to ask here.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestion that you might have.
> 
> Warm Regards,
> James
> 

There are at least two tools: ivman (@sourceforge) and usb-mount (try
google).

(Sorry for the short answer, it's bit late in Germany)


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-05 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-05 22:09 [gentoo-user] Detecting when a USB device is attached James Colby
2006-02-05 22:35 ` Maximilian Gass [this message]
2006-02-05 23:40 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-02-06  6:54   ` Canek Peláez
2006-02-06 11:24     ` Jan Callewaert
2006-02-06 11:40       ` Neil Bothwick
2006-02-06 12:48       ` Iain Buchanan
2006-02-06 13:36         ` [gentoo-user] " James
2006-02-06 14:08           ` Neil Bothwick
2006-02-06 14:12             ` Richard Fish
2006-02-06 15:20               ` James
2006-02-06 18:00                 ` Uwe Thiem
2006-02-07  8:47                   ` Neil Bothwick
2006-02-06 15:07             ` Uwe Thiem
2006-02-06 17:39               ` Neil Bothwick

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