Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote:
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From: James Lockie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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.
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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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