udev and USB devices - FC3

[Joseph Kubik]

On the laptop, what does /var/log/messages say when you insert the USB
key on the laptop?
Are there any errors?


-Joseph-

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:49:03 -0500, Anton Markov <anton-F0u+EriZ6ihBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> Francois Ouellette wrote:
> | Hello,
> |
> | One my desktop running Fedora 3 when I insert a thumb drive in a USB port
> | it gets automatically recognized and mounted with an entry in fstab
> | /dev/sda1 on /media/LEXAR_MEDIA type vfat
> |      (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,noatime,iocharset=utf8,user=xxx)
> 
> '/etc/fstab' doesn't actualy mount anything on it's own. Most likely
> there is a hotplug script which gets executed every time the thumbdrive
> is inserted and does the mounting for you.
> 
> |
> | But on my laptop nothing happens when I insert the thumb drive in any of
> | the USB ports, so I am trying to add entries in a file in
> | /etc/udev/rules.d but I am not sure what's needed.
> 
> Once again, UDEV is not responsible for mounting anything. It simply
> creates or removes device nodes (files in '/dev'). You stated below that
> /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 are already being created, so UDEV is not the
> problem here.
> 
> |
> | Those entries get created when the (laptop) system starts:
> |
> | /proc/bus/usb/001/001
> | /proc/bus/usb/001/002
> | /proc/bus/usb/001/003
> | /proc/bus/usb/002/001
> | /proc/bus/usb/002/003
> |
> | as well as /dev/sda and /dev/sda1
> |
> | Also fstab contains:
> | usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
> 
> 'usbfs' is the filesystem that contains information about USB devices
> connected to the system (such as '/proc/bus/usb/001/001' above). It has
> nothing to do with mounting the actual devices.
> 
> |
> | so it looks like there is only a little bit missing...
> |
> 
> I am not sure if/how the desktop auto-detected the thumb drive (I am not
> ~ an Fedora user), but I know Redhat used to have a hardware detection
> utility called 'kudzu' which you could try running on the laptop (I am
> assuming your laptop runs FC3, since you didn't say otherwise).
> 
> Otherwise, here is the manual route:
> 1) copy the lines related to the thumb drive from your desktop (the ones
> you posted above) into your laptop's /etc/fstab. That should at least
> let you mount the thumb drive manually
> 2) As far as automounting it goes, you have several choices:
> - - Try looking in /etc/hotplug on your desktop for any usb-related
> scripts your laptop may be missing (I don't know how hotplug works on FC3)
> - - Forget about hotplug and use automount/autofs. This is my favourite
> option, since automount will also unmount your filesystems when they are
> not in use, so you can remove the drive without issuing an unmount
> command (after waiting for it to unmount).
> 
> I hope this gets you on the right track; sorry I can't be more helpful.
> 
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