Re: Automount on fluxbox under Ubuntu Oneiric

Rainer M Krug <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.fluxbox.user
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Fernando M. Maresca <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:03:17PM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> > Is nobody automounting under fluxbox? I can open nautilus ant mount from
> there,
> > but I would definitely prefer an automatic version, so that I can also
> use the
> > drive directly from an xter,m.
>
> I do not really need automount but for repetitive tasks I prefer to use
> autofs, that's the linux kernel automount facilities, combined with some
> simple udev rules.
>
> This way I have:
> /media/cdrom
> /media/ebook
> /media/pendrive
> etc.
>
> I simply can cd to the directory and the kernel will automount the
> device if it's present. There are other options however.
>

That works for cd and single pendrives, but I have a few drives, which are
used by backup scripts, and therefore expect a specific mountpoint. In
addition, having the device mounted to a mountpoind based on the name of the
device, is a nice sanity check for the backup script: if /media/backup does
not exist, then the backup fails, in contrast to backing up to
/media/externalhdd, which would be there irrespective of the external hdd,
so a backup could go on the wrong hdd.

So: for certain cases that works, for my needs unfortunately not.

Thanks,

Rainer

>
> Regards,
>
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