I've already talked about my GNU/Linux workstations: my setup is often minimal and without graphical facilities.

However, some facilities can be replicated without graphical tools and with a very small footprint on the system.
For example, on my setup i've realized a USB automount service without using any external tool/service, with only udev and systemd.



The first step is a brief shell script, which will be called by systemd and takes care of creating and removing mount points, and mounting and unmounting the drives:



Just create this file in /usr/local/bin/usb-mount.sh and set +x permissions. The script also sends a desktop notification to the user:

(this part needs and additional configuration with username and userid,line 47)

In order to allow systemd to call this script, we need to create a unit file.
So create the file /etc/systemd/system/usb-mount@.service with the following content:

[Unit]
Description=Mount USB Drive on %i

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=true
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/usb-mount.sh add %i
ExecStop=/usr/local/bin/usb-mount.sh remove %i

(we use the "@" filename syntax so we can pass the device name as an argument)

Finally, a couple of udev rules to start and stop the systemd unit service on hotplug/unplug (create a new file in /etc/udev/rules.d/99-local.rules):

KERNEL=="sd[a-z][0-9]", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/systemctl start usb-mount@%k.service"
KERNEL=="sd[a-z][0-9]", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ACTION=="remove", RUN+="/bin/systemctl stop usb-mount@%k.service"

In order to enable the configuration, reboot the system or call this commands:

# udevadm control --reload-rules
# systemctl daemon-reload

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