Re: Automount on fluxbox under Ubuntu Oneiric

Rainer, i mean no disrespect, but this is really offtopic, as in not
directly related to fluxbox. I'd suggest taking it to the Ubuntu mail
list or IRC channel.

>From what I gather though you have several pendrives connected to
different USB slots. You may want to setup different directories/mount
points for each pendrive (IE: /mnt/pen00, /mnt/pen01, et cetera), and
access them that way.

My suggestion is read through the autofs docs and play with autofs for
an hour or two before asking for any further help.

http://www.autofs.org/

Just my two cents.

Cheers!

On 20 October 2011 06:57, Rainer M Krug <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> 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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