Never tried it with USB, but use autofs a lot -- look at your /etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.misc files. I use "crypt -fstype=reiserfs :/dev/loop0" in /etc/auto.misc to automount an encrypted loop device. The user that owns that filesystem can just cd to it and it mounts automagically, to others it's not even there. That is, there's nothing in the /misc/ dir until I cd into /misc/crypt and it self unmounts if you aren't in it for so long, however long you set the timeout for. You have to have already run the losetup for the loop device, of course, and all that. Autofs works fine for automounting floppys and pccards as well, don't know why it wouldn't work for USB drives. Getting it to run a shell script when mounted shouldn't be that hard. On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 05:29:17PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:

I've bought me a little (32 MBytes) hotpluggable USB flash stick (a TrekStor). It mounts fine, but what I'd like to do is to automount it, and fire up a program (I intend to put my keyring on it) if hotplugged.

The system I'm testing this on is RH 7.3.

I've been using mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usbhd to mount it manually and put diverse entries into /etc/fstab, to no avail. Any suggestions?

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