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I would like to have my home Ubuntu server automount USB devices. Currently, I mannually write

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/library

However, I tried to write an Upstart script, start-library.conf in /etc/init, but that did not work. Am I doing something wrong? The contents of that file are:

exec sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/library

I experimented with stanzas as well, such as

script
    sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/library
end script

But that did not work either. Am I missing something in the Upstart template? Or does it just not work because those usb devices haven't loaded yet at the time this script exectutes? Can I do something about that? specify the runlevel? If so, which one? Etc. Idk.

jlanssie
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usbmount is the tool to automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices.

You can install it like so:

Run in the terminal:

sudo apt update

Then run:

sudo apt install usbmount

Then run:

sudo systemctl restart udev

Done. When a USB storage device is connected, it will be mounted under /media/usb[0-7] and it will be unmounted when disconnected.

Raffa
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  • @jlanssie 20.04 comes with systemd, but for upstart anyway, skip the third step and just reboot. – Raffa Jan 27 '21 at 09:35
  • jammy 22.04 doesn't have usbmount package. Do you know if it just got renamed? – dgrogan Nov 04 '22 at 07:15
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    @dgrogan Yes, that's true. Unfortunately, it appears to be removed altogether from the official repositories for 22.04 ... You, can, however, either still build it from source or you can use a custom made script instead which is described in detail in my other answer here ... I hope this helps :-) – Raffa Nov 04 '22 at 12:32
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I solved my problem by writing a script and executing that script on boot by rc.local:

  1. Script. Change the label "MYUSB" to the label of your usb device.
#!/bin/bash
# FUNCTION: Mount or unmount usb device to library
# ARGUMENTS: none
# AUTHOR: Jeremy Lanssiers
# COPYRIGHT: 2021 GNU
# VERSION: 1.0
# REQUIRES: mount

Check arguments


if [ -z "$1" ] || [[ ( $1 != "mount"  ) && ( $1 != "umount" ) ]]
then
    echo "USAGE: [mount/umount] [device]"
    exit 1
fi


Set variables


DEVICE=$(blkid | egrep -o '/dev/(.*):\ LABEL="MYUSB"')


DEVICE=$(echo $DEVICE | egrep -o '/dev/[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,10}')


LIBRARY=/media/library


Mount or unmount library


if [ $1 = "mount" ]
then
    mount $DEVICE $LIBRARY
    exit 0
fi


if [ $1 = "umount" ]
then
    umount $DEVICE $LIBRARY
    exit 0
fi


exit 1
  1. rc.local
#!/bin/bash
# /etc/rc.local

FUNCTION: execute scripts at startup


ARGUMENTS: none


AUTHOR: jlanssie@gmail.com


COPYRIGHT: 2021 GNU


VERSION: 1.0


REQUIRES: mount


/opt/mount-lib.sh mount


/etc/sysctl.d
/etc/init.d/procps restart


exit 0
jlanssie
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