Debian Bug report logs - #321694
usbmount: use vendor/model in mountpoints

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Pakulat <apaku@gmx.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: usbmount: use vendor/model in mountpoints

Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 01:25:20 +0200

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Package: usbmount
Version: 0.0.14-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

while discussing usb and automounting on debian-user-german lately I
wrote something like a mini-usbmount in python and later on figured that
usbmount has evolved a lot since last time I looked at it. I figured
that the attached patch might be useful, especially for people who
plug/unplug devices a lot and end up looking into each usb[0-7] dir to
find out where the new device was mounted. 

The patch basically just gets vendor/model from sysfs (I just pushed the
code for that further to the beginning) and then uses
<vendor>_<model>_<device> as the name for the mountpoint in /media. If vendor
and model are not available it uses just /media/usb_<device>, if any of
the both is available it is used. <device> here is the block device name
(i.e. sdXY or as it is here smallusb1, usbstick1 or cfcard). 

To do the unmounting the built-up mountpoint name is saved in a file in
/var/run/usbmount/vmmountpoints, called the same as the mountpoint. Upon
unmounting the directory in /media is removed.

The patch uses sed in 2 or 3 locations, if you know that bash can do the
same, please feel free to change it, such that usbmount doesn't need to
depend on sed. I'm not that much of a bash hacker to know about this
stuff.

The behaviour of usbmount can be controlled with a new configuration
variable called VENDORMODELMOUNTPOINTS, so that the old
mountpoint-behaviour is still intact (and the default).

Andreas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-cherry+noradeon+8139c+
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages usbmount depends on:
ii  lockfile-progs                0.1.10     Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  sed                           4.1.4-2    The GNU sed stream editor
ii  udev                          0.065-1    /dev/ management daemon

usbmount recommends no packages.

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Message #10 received at 321694@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>

To: 377548@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 317844@bugs.debian.org, 337795@bugs.debian.org, 356227@bugs.debian.org, 402389@bugs.debian.org, 502352@bugs.debian.org, 508699@bugs.debian.org, 361693@bugs.debian.org, 510007@bugs.debian.org, 321694@bugs.debian.org, 326081@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Is this bug still being seen?

Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 04:36:46 -0300

Hi,

I am triaging some bugs of usbmount to see if they are still  
reproducible (some still seem to be, but others do not---or, at  
least, I can't).

Could you please let me know if you still see the problem that you've  
reported with the latest package (version 0.0.17) from unstable (soon  
to be migrated to testing)?

Please, if you find any new bugs, don't hesitate to file another one  
against usbmount.

If you submitted a patch, can you see if it is still needed? I would  
like to kill as many bugs as possible with an upcoming version.


Thanks, Rogério Brito.

Message #17 received at 321694@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Olivier Berger <oberger@ouvaton.org>

To: 321694@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#321694: usbmount: use vendor/model in mountpoints

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:55:04 +0100

Hi.

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 01:25:20AM +0200, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> 
> The patch basically just gets vendor/model from sysfs (I just pushed the
> code for that further to the beginning) and then uses
> <vendor>_<model>_<device> as the name for the mountpoint in /media. If vendor
> and model are not available it uses just /media/usb_<device>, if any of
> the both is available it is used. <device> here is the block device name
> (i.e. sdXY or as it is here smallusb1, usbstick1 or cfcard). 
> 

Are there any plans to incorporate this change ?

Maybe it would even be better if the eventual LABEL of the mounted partition was used as a moint point dir too...

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Olivier BERGER 
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http://www.olivierberger.com/weblog/

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