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Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting

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On 29/08/17 12:19, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> First, I was able to relabel the drive as a suitably generic 
> "ExternalHD," and when I unplugged it and plugged it back in, it mounted 
> (albeit still under a user-specific, auto-created mount point) as that 
> label.
> With the drive automounted, I did a "umount" on it, created a mount 
> point for it (directly in /media, and available to everybody, for now, 
> at least), and then did a "mount" at the new mount point. It mounted 
> successfully in that user-neutral location, and is available to any 
> signed-on user.

Permissions are likely to be main problem for multiuser access. 
User-private groups, the sgid bit, and careful selection of umask may help.

> Of course, if I then unmount it, pull the plug, and plug it back in, 
> without an fstab entry, it auto-mounts to a created mount point in the 
> user's subdirectory of /media, but at least the mount point I created 
> doesn't go bye-bye, so that's a start.

Good. This is the expected behaviour for media with labels.

I have not tried this but a udev rule might be your next step:
https://www.axllent.org/docs/view/auto-mounting-usb-storage/

There is also a thing called udisks, but I have not used that either.

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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USB external hard drive -- mounting "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2017-08-28 23:30 +0200
  Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-08-29 01:10 +0200
    Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2017-08-29 02:20 +0200
      Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-08-29 03:40 +0200
        Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Frank <zuiderduin@gmx.com> - 2017-08-29 13:00 +0200
          Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2017-08-29 20:10 +0200
            Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Frank <zuiderduin@gmx.com> - 2017-08-29 21:40 +0200
    Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-29 04:40 +0200
  Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Dominique Dumont <dod38fr@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 13:30 +0200
    Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2017-08-29 20:50 +0200
      Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Dominique Dumont <dod38fr@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 21:10 +0200
        Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2017-08-29 21:20 +0200
        Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2017-08-30 00:00 +0200
    Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-09-03 04:00 +0200

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