Re: [gentoo-user] external USB harddrive

[James Lockie <bjlockie@lockie.ca>]

Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: James Lockie [mailto:bjlockie@lockie.ca]
>> Sent: 04 January 2007 05:28
>> To: Gentoo User Mailing List
>> Subject: [gentoo-user] external USB harddrive
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have one of these? :-)
>> It mounts when I connect it but a user can't unmount it.
>> My USB memory stick and USB card reader work fine.
>> It is only the hard drive that I can't unmount as a user.
>> I don't have or want an /etc/fstab entry for it, I should be able to 
>> configure KDE to handle it.
>>
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>
> I would add it to fstab (I reckon this would be the easiest way) - the same fstab entry should work for USB memory sticks/card readers as well, to my knowledge.
>
> Or if you wanted to get really fancy I believe you could write a udev rule so it recognises that device and assigns it /dev/externalhdd or the like :)
>
> David
> Note: These views are my own, advice is provided with no guarantee of success. I do not represent anyone else in any emails I send to this list.
>
>   
I tried creating 10-my-udev.rules
# http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev
KERNEL=="sd[c-z]", NAME="%k", SYMLINK+="usbhd-%k", GROUP="users", 
OPTIONS="last_
rule"
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[c-z][0-9]", SYMLINK+="usbhd-%k", 
GROUP="users", NAME=
"%k"
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[c-z][0-9]", RUN+="/bin/mkdir -p /media/usbhd-%k"
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[c-z][0-9]", RUN+="/bin/ln -s /media/usbhd-%k 
/mnt/usb
hd-%k"
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[c-z][0-9]", PROGRAM=="/lib/udev/vol_id -t 
%N", RESULT
=="vfat", RUN+="/bin/mount -t vfat -o 
rw,noauto,sync,dirsync,noexec,nodev,noatim
e,dmask=000,fmask=111 /dev/%k /media/usbhd-%k", OPTIONS="last_rule"
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[c-z][0-9]", RUN+="/bin/mount -t auto -o 
rw,noauto,syn
c,dirsync,noexec,nodev,noatime /dev/%k /media/usbhd-%k", OPTIONS="last_rule"
ACTION=="remove", KERNEL=="sd[c-z][0-9]", RUN+="/bin/rm -f /mnt/usbhd-%k"
ACTION=="remove", KERNEL=="sd[c-z][0-9]", RUN+="/bin/umount -l 
/media/usbhd-%k"
ACTION=="remove", KERNEL=="sd[c-z][0-9]", RUN+="/bin/rmdir 
/media/usbhd-%k", OPT
IONS="last_rule"
but then KDE doesn't see the new drive.

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