I would like to have my home Ubuntu server automount USB devices. Currently, I mannually write
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/library However, I tried to write an Upstart script, start-library.conf in /etc/init, but that did not work. Am I doing something wrong? The contents of that file are:
exec sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/library I experimented with stanzas as well, such as
script sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/library end script But that did not work either. Am I missing something in the Upstart template? Or does it just not work because those usb devices haven't loaded yet at the time this script exectutes? Can I do something about that? specify the runlevel? If so, which one? Etc. Idk.
2 Answers
usbmount is the tool to automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices.
You can install it like so:
Run in the terminal:
sudo apt update Then run:
sudo apt install usbmount Then run:
sudo systemctl restart udev Done. When a USB storage device is connected, it will be mounted under /media/usb[0-7] and it will be unmounted when disconnected.
I solved my problem by writing a script and executing that script on boot by rc.local:
- Script. Change the label "MYUSB" to the label of your usb device.
#!/bin/bash # FUNCTION: Mount or unmount usb device to library # ARGUMENTS: none # AUTHOR: Jeremy Lanssiers # COPYRIGHT: 2021 GNU # VERSION: 1.0 # REQUIRES: mount # Check arguments if [ -z "$1" ] || [[ ( $1 != "mount" ) && ( $1 != "umount" ) ]] then echo "USAGE: [mount/umount] [device]" exit 1 fi # Set variables DEVICE=$(blkid | egrep -o '\/dev\/(.*)\:\ LABEL="MYUSB"') DEVICE=$(echo $DEVICE | egrep -o '\/dev\/[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,10}') LIBRARY=/media/library # Mount or unmount library if [ $1 = "mount" ] then mount $DEVICE $LIBRARY exit 0 fi if [ $1 = "umount" ] then umount $DEVICE $LIBRARY exit 0 fi exit 1 - rc.local
#!/bin/bash # /etc/rc.local # FUNCTION: execute scripts at startup # ARGUMENTS: none # AUTHOR: # COPYRIGHT: 2021 GNU # VERSION: 1.0 # REQUIRES: mount /opt/mount-lib.sh mount /etc/sysctl.d /etc/init.d/procps restart exit 0 
