So I am trying to create a udev rule to automatically mount a drives exfat partition to /media/offsite. My goal is to automatically mount a drive to /media/offsite and then kick off a .sh script to copy files around. I have been reading many guides and have learned a lot, but I am still getting stuck. Many of the guides are very outdated and apply to USB drives where as I have a docked drive.
Just to see if a rule would trigger, I created this rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/80-external-disk.rules:
ACTION=="add", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="partition", ENV{ID_FS_UUID}=="5359-818E", RUN+="/bin/mount -t exfat -U $env{ID_FS_UUID}"
I reloaded rules, rebooted server, few other things, and it appeared the rule wasn't firing.
udevadm test $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/sdb) 2>&1 | grep /etc/udev/rules.d
That only produces the following;
parse_file: reading '/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules' as rules file
parse_file: reading '/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules' as rules file
parse_file: reading '/etc/udev/rules.d/80-external-disk.rules' as rules file
My thought is that the UUID belongs to the partition and not the drive. With the partition being an exfat, can UDEV even see that UUID?
Best Answer
mountis not allowed in the late releases of udev. Better to go with udisks if you are using Gnome/Unity or any other alternative for other DE.man udev