How to make usb disks readable by all users on Raspbmc
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In a past article I wrote about a comparison of Openelec, Raspbmc and Xbian. That article hit a record in terms of number of readings and comments on this blog. I spoke about some modification I had to do to Raspbmc to make it usable for my needs but I din’t show them. In this article I’m going to fill this gap.
In order to make the usb drives be mounted with writing permissions to all the user of the system I’ve modified the /etc/udisk-glue.conf as following (in bold are the part that I’ve added:
filter disks {
optical = false
partition_table = false
usage = filesystem
}
match disks {
automount = true
automount_options = { sync, noatime, <strong>"dmask=0", "fmask=0"</strong>}
post_insertion_command = "udisks --set-spindown %device_file --spindown-timeout 1800 --mount %device_file --mount-options sync,noatime,<strong>dmask=0,fmask=0</strong>"
}
And I had to let udisk-glue run as root as following:
# udisks-glue # description "udisks-glue for udisks" start on started dbus stop on (runlevel [06] or stopped dbus) expect fork respawn #exec su - pi -c "udisks-glue" exec udisks-glue
(I’ve changed udisk-glue such that It’s run by root)
Since there are a lot of folks out there that are using this distro I think it’s is worth sharing this knowledge. If some dev is reading this, please consider to propagate this changes (or do equivalent ones) to the distro in order to increase flexibility.
9 Comments
Hi,
I can’t find the “udisk-glue.conf” -file on the raspbmc.
Or maybe this file has a different name under raspbmc?
Cheers
it’s /etc/udisk-glue.conf. If it’s not there still, let me know.
I’ve installed raspbian-xbmc-20130212.img and the udisk-glue.conf is neither in /etc nor in /etc.init.
I’d assumed that they’ve changed the way the drive were automounted?
I dunno. I don’t have a Raspbian in my hands anymore 🙁
Hi,
Great article, I was wondering if you cold explain the second part – letting udisks-glue run as root. Specifically how did you do it? Is that a script that needs to be run?
Thanks,
Rob
Would like to know, too…
The fact that you are commenting line 12 of the second part and adding line 13 does exactly that. Instead of run udisks-glue as user pi, it runs as root.
Thanks much! – It works, but pretty it ain’t. Now the drives are root/root 0777. I’d rather have them pi/pi 0770 and add users to the pi group. I didn’t find a way, but perhaps you or Sam can help out?
@PowWowWow the script is in /etc/init/udisks-glue.conf
The
post_insertion_commanddoesn’t a loop because of the conjunction of the--set-spindownand--spindown-timeout parameters?