Automatic mounting of USB HDD FLASH Pen

[user1213213]

Does anyone in simplest possible terms know how to automatically mount USB HDD's, FLASH Pen's etc?
I'm on Debian server and would like the mounting to be autonomous. Thank you.

[arzgi]

For me works out of the box, Debian 12.7 Xfce, when I insert for examply an usb stick, it gets mounted to /media/$USER/nnn, and I can see it in thunar (Xfce's file manager) also in the terminal.

[pbear]

Does "Debian server" mean no desktop is installed? If so, the simplest answer would be to install one. XFCE is a good choice. Relatively low overhead and, as arzgi says, will mount removable devices hot-plugged at boot. If you don't want a desktop (or have no way to interface with one), you're looking at reproducing what XFCE does with a script. udisks is the tool actually doing the mount, by the way.

From how you wrote the question, I infer you want the system to mount any-and-all devices which might be attached. If you have specific devices in mind, you also can mount with fstab. Be sure to include a nofail parameter.

[dilberts_left_nut]

I do it with my backup drives on a headless machine with udev rules triggering a mounting script.

[user1213213]

Sounds complicated. Thanks for the tip.

[pbear]

In between. Scripting is neither simple nor brain surgery. It's learnable. You weren't born knowing how to drive a car either. A quick internet search turns up a bunch of hits.

[arzgi]

Sounds complicated. Thanks for the tip.

It is not, I have done a lot this before. This is a good guide I have used http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html

[bw123]

I ran across this today, hope it helps...

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$ man systemd-mount | grep -A3 EXAMPLE
EXAMPLE
       Use a udev rule like the following to automatically mount all USB
       storage plugged in:

[pbear]

Interesting, I've not heard of that before. OTOH, (a) I have a desktop and (b) one of the first things I do after installation is disable automount of USB drives.

Anyhoo, the output got truncated somehow. Here's the whole thing:

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~$ man systemd-mount | grep -A3 EXAMPLE
EXAMPLE
       Use a udev rule like the following to automatically mount all USB storage plugged in:

           ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_FS_USAGE}=="filesystem", \

Next question is, where does the OP put that udev rule? Frankly, I don't know.

[CwF]

Next question is, where does the OP put that udev rule?

/etc/udev/rules.d/99-automounts.rules, or similar.

[sunrat]

There's another line:

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$ man systemd-mount | grep -A4 EXAMPLE
EXAMPLE
       Use a udev rule like the following to automatically mount all USB storage plugged in:

           ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_FS_USAGE}=="filesystem", \
                   RUN{program}+="/usr/bin/systemd-mount --no-block --automount=yes --collect $devnode"

[dilberts_left_nut]

Won't work for me ... my backup server is still running squeeze!