[Server-devel] usbmount alternatives

[Daniel Drake]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 08:23 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net> wrote:
>> > The Community XS is being mounted on Fedora. Adam reports the Fedora does
>> > not support usbmount.
>>
>> I'd be interested in confirming that usbmount is now unusable and
>> unfixable on Fedora, if that is what is being suggested. Can anyone
>> provide technical details?
>
> With the move to per-seat mounting of devices at
> "/run/media/<user>/<device>" I would thought that usbmount's
> 20-umount.rules would override that behaviour but does not. This would
> be a welcome addition in Fedora proper as lots of people are having
> issues with the revised layout/behaviour of removable media.

Have you tried disabling whatever component is requesting mounts at
/run/media/? Note that this is not something that happens by "default"
- you must have something running that explicitly makes the request.

> Think the issue might be that a list (sda sda1) of character files is
> passed by udev but usbmount doesn't test if it's a block device before
> trying to mount, then failing and bailing if the first device in the
> list doesn't mount.

sda and sda1 will never be character devices, always block. It may try
sda first, but I don't think that is something new.

Daniel