Automount USB with UDEV rules, Problem [SOLVED WITH RESTRICTIONS]

[mindmachine]

Yeah, it is. It shows in /mnt as sdb1?? Strange, isn' t it? But , alas, I just notice, that it doesn't show any files. What is going on?

[Rich]

Hi mindmachine
What you see is the mount point that was created. If it's not listed in mtab, it's not mounted.
Let's see what messages this returns:

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sudo mount -t auto -o rw /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1

[mindmachine]

Failed, invalid argument...

[tinypoodle]

It's still mounted rwxr-xr-x. :-(.

That is read-write.
However, no direct conclusions can be drawn from file permissions towards mount options.

[Rich]

Hi mindmachine
How about:

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sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
cat /etc/mtab | grep sdb1

[mindmachine]

Yeah, but just for root. If I try to hand this over network as a share, you unfortunately don't get write permissions.

[mindmachine]

This also gives an invalid argument. I'll stop here for now, as I have to take care for the kids. I'll try again tomorrow or later on. It might be, that the mount point sdb1, as beeing created by udev rules atm is causing trouble. So I will go back to stock version ov the udev rule, create mouhnt point by hand and try to use the recommended arguments.

Thanks for your help by now. It is always a pleasure to find helpful people on the web!

[mindmachine]

Did some testing. Mountig by cmd using -t ntfs-3g works well. Mounting with -t auto gives "invalid argument". So I can't use the udev-scripts as I do use ext2, vfat and ntfs sticks. What can be done?

[Rich]

Hi mindmachine
Does:

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sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1work?

[mindmachine]

It's getting weird. Drive mounts with -t ntfs but now we got dr-x------ as file permissions??!!

[Rich]

Hi mindmachine
How about just

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mount /mnt/sdb1

[mindmachine]

That works. Drive is now mounted rw. How to put this in the udev script?

[Rich]

Hi mindmachine
Try changing

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mount /dev/$1 /mnt/$1to:

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mount /mnt/$1Also remember to add:

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ln /usr/local/sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /usr/local/sbin/mount.ntfsto your  /opt/.filetool.lst  file.
I'll be back later this evening if you need more help.

[mindmachine]

I already tried that, but again the drive is mounted read only by using the script (rtesp. it is not mounted, as there is no entry in mtab). Symlink is also already set and the folders are included for backup. This is really pestering me!! 
Furthermore as there is an entry for sdb1 within fstab but still sdb1 doesn't mount via script. I already tried to increase "sleep" but that didn't do the trick. So my automount script starts obviously, running rebuildfstab, but isn't able to execute the mount /mnt/$1 command.

[Rich]

Hi mindmachine

Also remember to add:

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ln /usr/local/sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /usr/local/sbin/mount.ntfsto your  /opt/.filetool.lst  file.

Sorry, I meant to say to add that to your  /opt/bootlocal.sh  file, NOT  /opt/.filetool.lst.