On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 22:39:28 +0000 Daniel Abrecht <d...@danielabrecht.ch> wrote:
> On 04/09/2017 08:01 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Sun, 09 Apr 2017 08:24:15 +0200 > > Joachim Fahrner <j...@fahrner.name> wrote: > >> without gvfs PCmanFM does not mount external usb drives > > > > Somewhere back in the archives I submitted a shellscript to > > automatically mount thumb drives without a file manager. > > I think automatically mounting thumb drives is very different from > mounting them when I klick on them in my file manager. Things like > automatically mounting removable medias or even auto starting > applications, I don't want that. What if I want to rescue a faulty > thumb drives for example, automatically mounting it would could > damage it even further. I think that Linux doesn't do or change things > on it's own like Windows used to be a big strength of it. > > Daniel Abrecht Mounting them only on user demand would be even easier. Here's my choosethumb.sh, which assists me to ask to mount a thumb drive: ===================================================================== #!/bin/sh # Copyright (C) 2017 by Steve Litt # Licensed with the Expat license: # http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:Expat mountsfile=/tmp/mounts.tmp mountdir=$HOME/media usage(){ echo echo 'USAGE: choosethumb.sh [-m|-u]' echo ' for mount and umount respectively' echo ' must have sudo rights to mount/umount' echo exit 9 } listdevs(){ readlink /dev/disk/by-id/*-part* | \ awk -F/ '{print $NF}' | sort -u } listthumbs(){ readlink /dev/disk/by-id/usb-*:?-part* | \ awk -F/ '{print $NF}' | sort -u } handledevs(){ while read thisdev; do if grep $thisdev $mountsfile > /dev/null; then echo `grep $thisdev $mountsfile` else echo $thisdev ' unmounted' fi done } orgdir=`pwd` cd $HOME mount | grep ^/dev/sd | \ sed -e 's+^/dev/++' -e 's+type.*++' > \ $mountsfile if test "$#" != "1"; then usage elif test "$1" = "-m"; then mychoice=`listthumbs | handledevs | sort -u | \ dmenu -l 20 -fn 10x20` resultt=$? myfcn=m elif test "$1" = "-u"; then mychoice=`listthumbs | handledevs | \ grep -v "unmounted" | sort -u | \ dmenu -l 20 -fn 10x20` resultt=$? myfcn=u else usage fi if test "$resultt" = "0"; then trimchoice=`echo $mychoice | cut -f 1 -d " "` if test "$myfcn" = "m"; then mkdir -p $mountdir/$trimchoice if sudo mount /dev/$trimchoice $mountdir/$trimchoice; then echo "Mounted /dev/$trimchoice on $mountdir/$trimchoice" else echo "Mount FAILED: /dev/$trimchoice on " echo "$mountdir/$trimchoice" exit 2 fi elif test "$myfcn" = "u"; then if sudo umount /dev/$trimchoice; then echo -n "UnMounted /dev/$trimchoice away " echo "from $mountdir/$trimchoice" else echo "Failed to unmount /dev/$trimchoice" echo "Check what is using it and try again." exit 3 fi else echo "Internal argument error, call programmer, aborting." exit 5 fi else if test "$myfcn" = "m"; then echo 'User declined to mount.' else echo 'User declined to unmount.' fi exit 1 fi cd $ORGDIR exit 0 ===================================================================== Modify to suit your taste. SteveT Steve Litt April 2017 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng