stark

[machinebacon]

just in case you didnt see it, check out the wiki article on mounting, it might be of use: http://linuxbbq.org/wiki/index.php/Mount

or fstab entries can do a lot :)

[machinebacon]

Oh and I want to add the fabulous

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sudo apt-get install gnutils
sudo gitmount /dev/sdb2

sudo apt-get install mountpy
sudo mountpy

the latter mounts everything in one command, might be exactly what most people need (careful, depends on python)

If you like GUI tools for easy one-click tasks:

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sudo apt-get install disk-manager
gksudo disk-manager

Maybe stark (or whoever) wants to add this to the wiki?

[rhowaldt]

^^ ja, that article has both some info on fstab entries (obviously got my info from the Arch wiki but it gives some good real-world examples as that is how i have my fstab set up), and talks about mounting with r/w perms as regular user.

the suggestions for mountpy are good too, i think pmount is mentioned on the wiki as a good replacement.

consider the extra info added to the wiki :)

[machinebacon]

pmount, IIRC; only does USB devices, but I may be wrong. :)

thanks for editing the wiki

[Dr_Chroot]

^ Yep and its doable with most wms too! Remember ?

I completely forgot about that! I usually have things like that bookmarked, but I lost them all when I screwed things up. This is great; not that I really have too much of a use for it at the moment. I was thinking that this would allow me to just completely remove borders on evilwm and then use this instead, which would be nice :D I'm working on a Gentoo install at the moment (fun in its own way) will definitely try to put this to good use.

And thanks for (albeit in a roundabout way) finally teaching me how to mount my Windows partitions ;) mountpy is amazing; just started playing with it. Thanks MB! I renamed it mounty-python in my /usr/bin :D

[machinebacon]

Dr, this one time I allow you renaming an executable. For the future, please either use an alias in your bash/zsh, or a bash wrapper script in /usr/local/bin or create a symlink :) Or even better: rename it back to mountpy, you never know what the next update brings :sweet_smile:

Btw, there is also umountpy

[kexolino]

pmount, IIRC; only does USB devices, but I may be wrong. :)

Also with SD cards (with a laptop's card reader). Does that count as the same thing?

[Dr_Chroot]

^^ Thank you! Dr_Clueless has been educated again... I should have thought of adding a bash alias! I hadn't even thought of upgrades :/

[wuxmedia]

nope, one doesn't - then, ARRGH!

[stark]

Thanks so much everyone ! I used to do it the fstab way but then I noticed I don't always need the data partition hence the bloat. Looks like I need to compile both gnutils and mountpy from source, Debian +1 :D

[pidsley]

In .bash_aliases:

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alias mt='sudo mount'
alias umt='sudo umount'

In /etc/sudoers (use visudo):

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%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD /bin/mount, /bin/umount

Then this works with no password:

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mt /dev/sda8 /media/shared

Make another alias if you do it a lot. I have this for my backup usb stick:

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alias mtusb='mt /dev/sdb /media/8Gusb'

[rhowaldt]

pids, do you have a particular reason for staying away from fstab? because i would have /media/shared defined in my fstab (without automount) so i could just type

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mt /media/shared

(lazy, i know)

i was just wondering whether you have reasons to stay away from fstab that i should know about so i might stay away as well ;)

[machinebacon]

WHat all others said, and this http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1012

[stark]

^ Awesome, Thanks again guys !

I have just this one question regarding permissions as I don't fully understand how they are handled or work. When I use sudo to mount a device or partition, will the permissions get messed up when I write to it ? If not when do permissions get messed up ?

Apologies for being such a pain in the *arse*

[wuxmedia]

mount as sudo/root is obligatory, how you mount the thing is where the perms come from.
if you can write to it then thats fine, I find NTFS doesn't really care that much, basically the perms are wide open (777)

Also depends on how the dirs are set (look up sticky bit) and who you are writing as.
Normally you write as root, the files are owned as root:root.
ie; at work have to remember to chown test files back to the user:group otherwise user cannot remove them :)

When sticky bit set on for user 'bob', 'touch file' as root, written as bob
Can be set for groups also, this is how we maintain half decent permission for WP installs, instead of some developers using 777 "welcome all malware".

[stark]

^ Woah, Thanks for the brief explanation. Weirdly enough, all the writes and modification that I have done on the data partition are owned by the regular user.

[stark]

Here's the link to the details in /r/unixart: http://ow.ly/MU1d8

[dkeg]

that's really nice stark. Good job!

[simgin]

Awesome work Stark o.O

cheers
simon

[rhowaldt]

linkin park? ;)

supernice stark! really impressive :)