Re: Working on a usb-storage hotplug script

[Wout Mertens <wmertens@cisco.com>]

Yesterday at 20:49, Olaf Hering sat down and wrote:

>  On Wed, Dec 10, Wout Mertens wrote:
>
> > Yesterday at 17:09, Olaf Hering ponderously produced:
> >
> > >  On Tue, Dec 09, Wout Mertens wrote:
> > >
> > > > Comments?
> > >
> > > forget 2.4, work on 2.6. 2.6 will give you a block event if there is
> > > something of interrest.
> >
> > Well, you're right. I just created a hotplug script that will automount
> > all block devices that get attached. I use this behaviour to use a USB
> > key as a token for connecting to a VNC session from a thin client.
> >
> > It's way cleaner than the 2.4 version...
> >
> > Here's the script, comments?
>
> to make it more generic, use /proc/self/mounts and sed instead of tr.

Sure :) Here are the changed lines:

====================
done < /proc/self/mounts
done < /proc/self/mounts

echo $1 | sed 's/[ /?*\"<>]/_/g'
set `echo $DEVPATH | sed 's/\// /g'`
set `echo $PASSWD | sed 's/:/ /g'`
====================

Playing with it, I see that 2.6 is very robust, and the only problem is
that when you mount something as "sync", it doesn't sync the directory
entry until after you type "sync". It does write all the data first
though. Sigh. This is where supermount_ng comes in.

I realize that the cleaner way would be to rewrite fstab and let
KDE/Gnome help the user with mounting/unmounting. But that won't help
for USB login tokens...

Wout.


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