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I want to make a script to mount an external device to a particular mount point e.g say /mnt. Let me elaborate my question, suppose I run fdisk -l in terminal I would get this output

Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1         493     3956672    6  FAT16

so I want to write a script so that when I run that script it checks for where external device is mounted(in my case sdb1) and automatically takes that partition and mount it to /mnt

I have scientific linux 6.4(32 bit) .

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    How would you know which device you want? That's not the entire fdisk output, you also have sdaN. Will it always be sdbN? Will it always be an external device? What else defines it? What if you have an external device with multiple partitions? Commented Jun 20, 2014 at 12:25
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    Refer this link. linuxconfig.org/… Commented Jun 21, 2014 at 2:13

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I guess udev could help.

First you need to get serial of your device:

udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/sdb) | grep -i serial

then add the rule to /etc/udev/rules.d/

SUBSYSTEMS=="usb",ACTION=="add",KERNEL=="sd?1", ATTRS{serial}=="HARDDRIVESERIAL", RUN+="/bin/mount /dev/%k /mnt/",OPTIONS="last_rule"
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  • When I run "udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/sdb) | grep -i serial" I got two serial numbers which one to use ? ATTRS{serial}=="82HRQHIY" ATTRS{serial}=="0000:00:1d.7" @dchirikov Commented Jun 24, 2014 at 10:17

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