Auto mounting a USB disc

On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 18:32 +1200, worik wrote:
I have a 1.6TB disc that is normally plugged into my TV.  For all sorts
of reasons I have plugged it into my computer (ubuntu 14.04.2) and it
did not automagically mount, as I expected.

Looking at dmesg -T  I can see: [Fri Jul 10 18:34:27 2015] sd 6:0:0:0:
[sdb] Attached SCSI disk

So guessing I mounted /dev/sdb1, all good.

But how do I explain to the poor wee computer that this should be done
automatically?


This taken from the automount system for my MAXI Debian stick.

Use blkid to find the UUID of the partition you are using on your
drive.

Add        UUID=whatever the uuid is  /media/cdrom0   auto   
 defaults,auto,user,ro,nofail         0    0        to fstab

Create file     99-mount.rules
Add line          SUBSYSTEM=="block", RUN+="/bin/mount UUID=whatever
the uuid is"       to   99-mount.rules

Copy 99-mount.rules        to         /etc/udev/rules.d

This should automagicly mount your disc (and only this disc) on
/media/cdrom0

Ubuntu 14.04 does use udev?

Phil.

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