USB Keychain Drive

[Dave Basener]

Hi,
I have a FC2 system and I use KDE.   I wrote a simple kdialog script to 
do mount and unmount of a usb drive when I click an icon on the K panel.

The dialog is a toggle.  If the usb drive is not mounted, it mounts it.  
If it is mounted it unmounts it.  It gives you a status when done and 
detects a couple of error conditions and gives you a choice of responses 
to those errors.  (I know there is a minor bug in it somewhere because 
every now and then it gives me no response.) (Uses bash and kdialog.)

Here is the script:
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#!/bin/bash
#
# Dave Basener - Aurora University
#

STATFILE=/tmp/mnt.stat
mount /mnt/stick >$STATFILE 2>&1
mountResp=$?

if [[ $mountResp == 32 ]]
then
    umount /mnt/stick >/dev/null 2>&1

    umountResp=$?

    if [[ $umountResp == 2 ]]
    then
        kdialog --error "Could not mount nor unmount the memory stick"
        exit 32
    elif [[ $umountResp == 0 ]]
    then
        kdialog --msgbox "Memory unmounted - OK to remove"
    fi
else
    # OK it's mounted, but did it mount properly
    if [[ -s "$STATFILE" ]]
    then
        # there is a message in the stat file - ask what to do
        kdialog --warningyesno "Device mounted, but mount 
returned:\n$(cat $STATFILE)\n\nUnmount device?"

        diaResp=$?

        # if unmount requested, simply recurse
        [[ $diaResp -eq 0 ]] && mountStick
    else
        # It mounted properly - give ACK
        kdialog --msgbox "USB Memory mounted - "
    fi
fi

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Brian McGrew wrote:

>Hello:
>
>I have a USB Keychain drive that I want to be able to insert and remove on a whim.  I want to be able to either 1) have the kernel auto mount the drive (like windows does) and dismount the drive with a right click or something or 2) have a link on my desktop to mount and dismount it.
>
>Is anyone doing this, are there specific packages that I should look for, or can I do this automatically?  We're running RedHat 7.3 with the 2.4.20 kernel.
>
>Thanks,
>
>-brian
>
>Brian D. McGrew        { brian at doubledimension.com || brian at visionpro.com }
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>>YOU!  Off my planet!
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David Basener               http://www.aurora.edu/~dbasener
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