On Sun, 16 Jan 2022 at 23:55, Stewart C. Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 2022-01-14 23:24, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
Why is Raspbian not set up to automount a memory stick
Raspberry Pi OS Lite (no desktop) doesn't automount USB devices. Raspberry Pi OS with Desktop does.
As a follow-up to Stewart's message - automounting is, I think, pretty much exclusively the realm of GUIs. It's handled by a GNOME package or a KDE package or the PCManFM package which handles the desktop for LXQt. Automounting isn't usually desirable in non-GUI environments - because of the assumption that they're server-like environments. I don't like automount even in a GUI environment - but usually manage to avoid it by going old-school on my Window Manager. I still run OpenBox or LXQt. The latter _does_ automount stuff, but if you dig into its config files there's a toggle to turn the behaviour off. All of which doesn't answer your question - although it does perhaps offer an indirect solution. Install a desktop environment (as opposed to a "window manager") if you don't have one (this may not be desirable). You haven't said if you have one - although I'm guessing that Stewart thought "embedded system" meant "Pi OS Lite" and thus no automount. I believe there is a non-GUI, background utility program somewhere out there that does automounting. You may have already found it in the form of the "usbmount" package but perhaps there's a setting you need to tweak. Although ... searching the Raspberry Pi OS package repos, I don't see a package called just "usbmount" so I'm not sure what that fix might be. This is very old: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11472/automount-usb-drives-with-no-... but may be worth a look for the udev rules, which probably haven't changed, and because the second answer has a pointer to Archwiki about automounting USB. I consider Archwiki to be pretty much the single best source of documentation on Linux: that article would be worth a read. I hope this helps. -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com