Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

[Michael Mol]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:41:22AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote
>
> > > I goto the root console which is always open on one of my desktops
> > > & enter 'musb', which is a Bash alias for a 'mount' command;
> >
> > Leaving aside the implications of leaving open a root console,
>
>   My scripts use pmount and pumount, which are hard-coded to only
> mount/unmount devices in directory /media.
>
> > that mounts the stick as root. That's fine for a FAT filesystem as
> > you can specify mount options to make it world-readable, but what
> > about an external drive formatted with ext? What about an external
> > drive with multiple partitions?
>
>   pmount/pumount to the rescue.  See...
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man1/pmount.1.html
>
>
I didn't know about that. That's...awesome. And it'll save me trouble.

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