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Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: |
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>> -----Original Message----- |
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>> From: James Lockie [mailto:bjlockie@××××××.ca] |
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>> Sent: 04 January 2007 05:28 |
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>> To: Gentoo User Mailing List |
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>> Subject: [gentoo-user] external USB harddrive |
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>> Does anyone have one of these? :-) |
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>> It mounts when I connect it but a user can't unmount it. |
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>> My USB memory stick and USB card reader work fine. |
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>> It is only the hard drive that I can't unmount as a user. |
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>> I don't have or want an /etc/fstab entry for it, I should be able to |
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>> 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. |
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> 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 :) |
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> David |
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> Note: These views are my own, advice is provided with no guarantee of success. I do not represent anyone else in any emails I send to this list. |
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I tried creating 10-my-udev.rules |
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# http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev |
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KERNEL=="sd[c-z]", NAME="%k", SYMLINK+="usbhd-%k", GROUP="users", |
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OPTIONS="last_ |
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rule" |
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ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[c-z][0-9]", SYMLINK+="usbhd-%k", |
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GROUP="users", NAME= |
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"%k" |
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ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[c-z][0-9]", RUN+="/bin/mkdir -p /media/usbhd-%k" |
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ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[c-z][0-9]", RUN+="/bin/ln -s /media/usbhd-%k |
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/mnt/usb |
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hd-%k" |
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ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[c-z][0-9]", PROGRAM=="/lib/udev/vol_id -t |
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%N", RESULT |
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=="vfat", RUN+="/bin/mount -t vfat -o |
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rw,noauto,sync,dirsync,noexec,nodev,noatim |
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e,dmask=000,fmask=111 /dev/%k /media/usbhd-%k", OPTIONS="last_rule" |
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ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[c-z][0-9]", RUN+="/bin/mount -t auto -o |
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rw,noauto,syn |
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c,dirsync,noexec,nodev,noatime /dev/%k /media/usbhd-%k", OPTIONS="last_rule" |
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ACTION=="remove", KERNEL=="sd[c-z][0-9]", RUN+="/bin/rm -f /mnt/usbhd-%k" |
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ACTION=="remove", KERNEL=="sd[c-z][0-9]", RUN+="/bin/umount -l |
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/media/usbhd-%k" |
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ACTION=="remove", KERNEL=="sd[c-z][0-9]", RUN+="/bin/rmdir |
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/media/usbhd-%k", OPT |
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IONS="last_rule" |
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but then KDE doesn't see the new drive. |
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