Removable Media - Automount
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Based on work by Myno, andre, mindbender, downlalaway, Thorongil, frontalot, and TcT.
Originally by downlalaway
at Linkstationwiki.org
This is a basic run through of USB devices connecting for Debian on an PPC LinkStation. The USB hard drive is USB 2.0 at 3Mb/s (on a laptop HD). NB. This was based on using the original kernel #990 conversion of the LS 1 and not the Freelink project. It has been updated for use with Freelink 1.11 but requires run-throughs by others to check.
USB and hotplug was/is a little flakey on 2.4 kernels in recognising devices. A reboot while the device is in should make things work. The 2.6 debian kernel is highly recommended if hot-swapping of usb devices might occur.
USB Removable Media: Automount
Note to kernel 2.4.17_mvl21-sandpoint #997 users (ships with Freelink 1.1.1): You need to move a few modules out of the way before you can continue:
mv /lib/modules/2.4.17_mvl21-sandpoint/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.o /root/
mv /lib/modules/2.4.17_mvl21-sandpoint/kernel/drivers/scsi/sd_mod.o /root/
mv /lib/modules/2.4.17_mvl21-sandpoint/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.o /root/
Reboot when done.
Note to Linkstation HG users: You may also need to do this; adjust the paths to your needs.
I found this to be the easiest way to automount removable USB devices:
apt-get install autofs gawk wget bzip2 make wget http://myy.helia.fi/~karte/linux/doc/automatic-mounting-autofs-files/mounttero-0.5.tar.bz tar -xjf mounttero-0.5.tar.bz cd mounttero-0.5 make /etc/init.d/autofs restart apt-get remove gawk # this step is optional
The devices will be mounted automagically in /mnt/auto/, for example, /mnt/auto/usb/ in case of a typical USB thumb drive, and unmounted automagically after four seconds when unplugged.
Edit /etc/auto.tero and comment out all /dev/hda? entries:
#hda1 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hda1
#hda2 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hda2
#hda3 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hda3
#hda4 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hda4
Kernel 2.6 (Power PC)
This will add USB Drive automounting and mount USB drives to /media/usb0,1,2,3 etc. symbolic links in /mnt/share will also be created usb0,usb1,usb2,usb3 so that they will be accessable via your samba share
apt-get remove hotplug apt-get install usbmount
You should change the lines in /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf to give you more universal access
- Line that starts FILESYSTEMS change to FILESYSTEMS="ext3 ext2 vfat"
- Line that starts MOUNTOPTIONS change to MOUNTOPTIONS="noexec,nodev,noatime"
- Line that starts FS_MOUNTOPTIONS change to FS_MOUNTOPTIONS="-fstype=vfat,umask=000"
These commands will create symbolic links will be into the shared filespace ( /mnt/share )
ln -s /media/usb0/ /mnt/share ln -s /media/usb1/ /mnt/share ln -s /media/usb2/ /mnt/share ln -s /media/usb3/ /mnt/share
Enjoy and please carefully comment if it doesn't work or changes needed.
