Re: Package requests: Udisks helpers (udiskie, udevil)

[Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>]

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Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:

>> Some udev rules might be enough though.
>
> That could very well be true!  I don't know a lot about how the various
> desktop environments like GNOME auto-mount removable storage devices,
> but I'd be surprised if you couldn't whip something up with udev rules.

Thinking about it, I don't think that would work.  I haven't tested the
following, but let's consider the Udev rule:

	(define %automount-udev-rule
	  (udev-rule
	   "90-automount.rules"
	   (string-append "KERNEL=\"sd[a-z][0-9]\", ACTION==\"add\", SUBSYSTEM==\"usb\", "
	                  "RUN+=\"/run/current-system/profile/bin/udisksctl mount -b /dev/%k\"")))

It would mount the drive as root, not for the current user.
It's possible to mount the drives for every one though:

	(define %automount-udev-rule
	  (udev-rule
	   "90-automount.rules"
	   (string-append "KERNEL=\"sd[a-z][0-9]\", ACTION==\"add\", SUBSYSTEM==\"usb\", "
                    "ENV{UDISKS_FILESYSTEM_SHARED}=\"1\","
	                  "RUN+=\"/run/current-system/profile/bin/udisksctl mount -b /dev/%k\"")))

Conclusion: a udev rule might solve part of the problem (auto-mounting) but
it does not allow for per-user mount points.

In the end, udiskie might be the better option.  What do you think?

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt

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