Automatically mounting USB w/o GUI?

[Tom Buskey]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Joseph Smith <joe at settoplinux.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:01:16 -0400, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> > I want my USB drive to show up mounted on /media/<some label> after I
> plug
> > it in.
> > I don't mind having to type something on the command line to trigger it.
> >
> > In Solaris, I put a CD/Floppy/USB in and type "volcheck".  Then it checks
> > for the presence of something and mounts it.
> > I can type df and see where it mounts it.  I don't run mount or anything
> > else that requires root.  If I want to use a file manager, I can.  But I
> > don't have to.
> >
> > That's what I want.
> >
> > Here's the scenario:
> >     Server in basement w/o monitor.  No one is logged in.  No gnome, no
> > KDE,
> > no X11 anything
> >     Plug USB in (ummmm tuesday)
> >     login remotely via SSH (friday?)
> >     want to transfer files to USB from server.
> >     eject USB device (monday)
> >     grab USB & put in backpack on way out door
> >
> >
> > When I'm using Ubuntu/Gnome or Fedora/Gnome, I usually have to fire up
> > thunar or some other GUI file manager and the device then gets mounted
> and
> > I
> > quit the file manager and use the command line.  They don't work so well
> on
> > a slow SSH tunnel.
> >
> >
> > So, does anyone know how to have linux mount the USB drives to /media
> like
> > the GUI file managers do w/o using the mount command?
> >
> > FWIW, I'm using Fedora 12 but I should be able to do this in Ubuntu 10.04
> > as
> > well.  And I'm *not* using a GUI tool to do it, so please no Gnome/KDE or
> > "Click on System -> ..." or anything else using a mouse.
>
> Well, you could always write a simple bash script to do the mount and if it
> is going to be same day/time every week use cron to run bash script. Hope
> that helps.
>
>
Maybe I should have said "some random time" and "random time + more random".
The times are not important.  I plug a random drive into the server,
sometime later login via SSH to transfer files to the drive, eject when I
finish, grab the drive on the next swing by the server.

The GUIs are using something.  There must be a way to scan the bus & mount
that the GUIs do.  And there must be a way to manualy run the scan instead
of polling or reacting to an event/interrupt.  I don't mind writing a script
around that.
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