ivman does not mount usb hard drives

[Arron]

By default ivman does not mount usb hard drives, because they are not considered "removeable". I believe that this is to be fixed in a future version of ivman, but for now it will not mount. This can be fixed by creating "/etc/hal/fdi/policy/mountpolicies.fdi" and put this in it:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
  <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
    <deviceinfo version="0.2">
      <device>
        <match key="info.category" string="storage">
          <match key="storage.hotpluggable" bool="true">
            <merge key="storage.policy.should_mount" type="bool">true</merge>
          </match>
        </match>
      </device>
    </deviceinfo>

I found this info at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ivman#USB_disks_don.27t_mount_.28fixed_in_0.6.14.29

[Gerd Bavendiek (gerd-bavendiek)]

This is true also for Gutsy.

Running ivman 0.6.14-2ubuntu on Gutsy like this

ivman -d --nofork

gives this for an USB disk:

IvmConfig/IvmConfigCommon.c:227 (ivm_device_is_mountable) Device /dev/sdc1 won't be mounted because no mount policy was specified on volume or storage device and storage device does not appear to be removable

I connected my disks to an SLES10 SP1 box with an older ivman. This older version worked flawlessly.
I compared lshal -lu on both systems. There is no significant difference AFAIK. I furthermore compared the xml files in /etc/ivman. There definitely is no difference which would count.

So: Despite the GENTOO wiki entry mentionend above, 0.6.14 did fix this.

Kind regards

Gerd

[Leon (leonbo)]

Is there already a fix for this? It's really anoying. Not automounting usb drivers is so '97!

[Leon (leonbo)]

The gentoo solution worked! But it was wrongly indented. So making that right fixed my problem!
cat /etc/hal/fdi/policy/mountpolicies.fdi

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.category" string="storage">
      <match key="storage.hotpluggable" bool="true">
        <merge key="storage.policy.should_mount" type="bool">true</merge>
      </match>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

[mous16 (mous16-info)]

This workaround doesn't work on Ubuntu Intrepid beta.
I've installed only the base system, and added Xorg, hal and fluxbox.

[L Schmiedl (lutz-schmiedl)]

he same on my system with Ubuntu Intrepid final with Openbox and Ivman. But I found a solution after
I read the following other bug report:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pmount/+bug/281367

Now I use gnome-mount instead pmount in my IvmConfigBase.xml:

<ivm:Option name="mountcommand" value="gnome-mount -d '$hal.block.device$'" />

<ivm:Option name="umountcommand" value="gnome-mount -u '$hal.block.device$'" />