Re: Automatic mount of external HDD.

[Erik P. Olsen]

On 2020-02-13 at 02:25:34 Mario Michele Macaluso wrote:
> Il 12/02/20 22:28, Erik P. Olsen ha scritto:
> > I have an external 2TB HDD which is defined in /etc/fstab so it is mounted at system
> > boot time. I would like to be able to have it mounted automatically with the same
> > mount point as defined in fstab when it is hot-plugged and unmounted when it is later
> > disconnected. Is that possible and if so how to do it?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> my 2c
>
> if you use a Workstation version:
> create e file under "/etc/udev/rules.d" (eg. 99-udisks.rules) insert the following
>
> line
>
> ENV{ID_FS_USAGE}=="filesystem|other|crypto", ENV{UDISKS_FILESYSTEM_SHARED}="1"
>
> the disk will be mounted under /media and not under /run/user/....
>
> /media/<label>
> as root: copy the content of /usr/lib/systemd/system/tmp.mount in
>  /usr/lib/systemd/system/media.mount (edit and correct all occurrance of /tmp in
>
> /media)

Thanks for pointing me to udev. This is definitely the way to go.