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[reddragdiva]

• Vagabonds photos. Not many, but good!

• NotN: Police valiantly save London from brutal anarchist attack; Obama and the Queen conspire to violate copyright.

Today I ordered a Nokia 5800 for redcountess as a free upgrade on my current £15/month plan. 24-month plan, but I'm surpassingly unlikely to want to leave Voodoophone before then. Rewarding years-long customers? What an amazing business idea.

The Samba tweaks worked, thank you. usbmount is a bloody idiot. It won't automount a plugged-in USB disk on boot — no, you have to unplug and replug it for it to notice the disk. WHAT. I suppose there's autofs. Any other ideas? (I'm not running X and DBus or any of that rubbish.)

Looking forward to my date with nyecamden tomorrow! Today.

Comments

[bionicgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Does seem a bit odd to not mount a usb stick at boot unless its unplugged/replugged.

script foo might solve it perhaps?

[steer.livejournal.com]

I have something similar with a USB pluggable wifi dongle. It's the same on windows and on linux -- not recognised on boot, plug and unplug and it's fine. I think just sometimes USB on boot "goes wrong". Which is a bit crap.

[reddragdiva]

It does in fact see the drive on boot! However, usbmount works from udev events (isn't that deprecated?), so presumably the right event isn't auto-generated on boot. Possibly I can do something to add "HEY DUDE WHY DON'T YOU LOOK AT WHAT'S PLUGGED IN THAT YOU CAN ALREADY DAMN WELL SEE".

[bionicgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

You migt be able hack the udev rules perhaps?

[bionicgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I do have some usb sticks (and my ipod shuffle g2), that confuse mu pc's bios and prevent booting, that is annoying.

Dunno if the U3/Readyboost features of recent usb sticks is the problem there?

[steer.livejournal.com]

Yup -- I can confirm that brokenness here too. How can an old technology like USB2 still cause problems? Weird.

[steer.livejournal.com]

My linux machine automounts plugged in usb disks on boot. Is this some BSD madness? Can you put the relevant mount in /etc/fstab or freaky and wrong BSD equivalent?

[reddragdiva]

It's Debian!

DBus usually does that sorta thing, presuming a screen and XOrg and other such effeminate fripperies.

[reddragdiva]

I want something that would work at boot but also not freak if the USB plug gets knocked out.

[steer.livejournal.com]

So what happens if you just add it to /etc/fstab then?

[jauncourt.livejournal.com]

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