Mounttero 0.4

Mounttero automatically mounts most storage devices such as USB drives and cameras, DVDs, CDROMs, hard disks, and floppies. Devices are mounted when users opens their directory, such as /mnt/auto/cdrom, and are unmounted when the directory remains unused for four seconds. Usage For example, when user opens directory /mnt/auto/usb/, digital camera is automatically mounted and all the pictures shown in the directory. After four seconds of inactivity, device is unmounted and can be detached. Manual Configuration The rest of this document describes manual configuration of mounttero. If you installed the rpm, it did all this configuration automatically and you dont need manual configuration. The scripts below contain some latest and greatest version 0.5 improvements that have not made it to rpm yet, namely more usb partitions. Create the directories used by the automounter. The directory is the one mentioned in /etc/auto.master: # mkdir -p /mnt/auto/autofs Create auto.master to tell autofs daemon that /mnt/auto/autofs directory is handled according to auto.tero # /etc/auto.master # mountpoint map options # see also: man 8 autofs /mnt/auto/autofs /etc/auto.tero --timeout=4 List the actual mountpoints and devices in the automounter map # /etc/auto.tero # http://iki.fi/karvinen/linux/doc/automatic-mounting-autofs.html # mountpoint_key options location_device # man 5 autofs cdrom -fstype=auto,ro,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/cdrom cdrom1 -fstype=auto,ro,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/cdrom1 usb -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sda1 # second and third partitions in usb device: usb2 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :dev/sda2 usb3 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :dev/sda3 floppy -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/fd0 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 hdb1 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdb1 hdb2 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdb2 hdb3 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdb3 hdb4 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdb4 hdc1 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdc1 hdc2 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdc2 hdc3 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdc3 hdc4 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdc4 hdd1 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdd1 hdd2 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdd2 hdd3 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdd3 hdd4 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdd4 # Serial ATA (SATA) disks are IDE emulated in Linux 2.6 hde1 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hde1 hde2 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hde2 hde3 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hde3 hde4 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hde4 # (c) 2003, 2004-05-29, 2004-09-19 Tero.Karvinen atta iki.fi # /etc/init.d/autofs restart Now drives are automatically mounted when you try to access them. You can test it by inserting a cdrom, and cd /mnt/auto/autofs/cdrom. The CDROM is automatically mounted, and ls should show you contents of the cd. When you cd to another directory, such as home directory (cd), CDROM is umounted in four seconds and the eject button in the drive starts working. To see which drives are mountable (have discs in drive), you can create symlinks (similar to shortcuts) to the mountpoints. You can create the symlinks manually for each drive, for example # cd /mnt/auto/ # ln -s autofs/cdrom cdrom.

Requirements:	No special requirements
Platforms:	Linux
Keyword:	Automatically,  Cd,  Cdrom,  Directory,  Drives,  Filesystems,  Mounttero,  System,  Usb
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