[Nix-dev] Automount for usb thumb drives / other external drives

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There is an udisk auto mounter in nixpkgs though: udiskie

Guillaume Maudoux (Layus) <layus.on at gmail.com> schrieb am Do., 16. Juli
2015 15:04:

> Hi,
>
> Le 16/07/15 13:58, Eelco Dolstra a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 15/07/15 23:22, Paul Koerbitz wrote:
> >
> >> I would like to automatically mount usb sticks that I plug into my
> >> laptop. I haven't been able to figure out how to do this in NixOS,
> >> what's the easiest option?
> > The standard mechanism used for dealing with removable media is udisks,
> used by
> > desktop environments like KDE and Xfce to allow non-root users to mount
> disks.
> > It can also be used from the command-line, e.g.
> >
> >    $ udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdb1
> >    Mounted /dev/sdb1 at /run/media/eelco/USBSTICK.
> >
> > Udisks doesn't mount disks automatically on insertion, but this could be
> done by
> > having a script that listens for the D-Bus messages sent by udisks and
> then asks
> > udisks to do the mount. In fact, there already is a package that does
> this:
> >
> >    https://github.com/fernandotcl/udisks-glue
> >
> > but it's not in Nixpkgs yet.
> >
> There is also the excellent udevil[1] tool that comes with devmon,
> a monitoring and automonting daemon.
> But udevil is not yet in nixpkgs either.
>
> [1] http://ignorantguru.github.io/udevil/
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