On 12Feb2020 22:28, Erik P. Olsen <epodata(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have an external 2TB HDD which is defined in /etc/fstab so it is
mounted at system boot
time. I would like to be able to have it mounted automatically with the same mount point
as defined in fstab when it is hot-plugged and unmounted when it is later disconnected.
Is that possible and if so how to do it?
There are tools like usbmount which mount drives as they are plugged in.
They have their own mount area.
You could write a script which uses lsblk (I like "lsblk -bfr") to watch
for drives and act on them (eg to just go "mount mountpoint" when you
see that device show up).
And I think some GUI desktops run their _own_ automount stuff, which
will race with you.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs(a)cskk.id.au>