UDEV and USB Automount

Question

Hoping someone can shed some light on this issue.
I'm writing own udev rule to automatically mount a USB drive used for backing up my system. The below udev rule works fine:
KERNEL=="sdc1", NAME="%k", RUNSYMLINK+="usb_storage"
The problem I'm having now is with the RUN+="<shell script here>"
The script will not execute. Does anyone see something that stands out in my rule?

Answer 1

jwesley wrote:KERNEL=="sdc1"
That's a terrible way of matching. Use e.g.:
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd*", ATTRS{serial}=="0042597blahblah", SYMLINK+="mydrive%n", RUN+="mount /media/mydrive"
To get the serial, use e.g.:
udevadm info -a --name /dev/sdc1 | grep serial
And of course, there should be an entry in /etc/fstab, e.g.:
/dev/mydrive1 /media/mydrive vfat noauto,noatime,users,flush,gid=100,umask=007
And the mountpoint should already exist:
mkdir -p /media/mydrive
Edit: Another nice udev rule is:
ACTION=="add", ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}=="vfat|ntfs", ENV{mount_options}="$env{mount_options},flush,utf8,gid=100,umask=002"
Last edited by brebs (2013-05-22 09:48:11)