Topic: Michał Górny's uam - a simple, hal-free USB automounter
I ran into uam, Michał Górny's neat little USB automounter when working on a minimal Debian system this week. As near as I can tell, it hasn't been posted to the #! forums, so here you go ...
Uam runs directly from udev triggers, so you don't have to marry into the whole fam-gamin-udisks-autofs-hal family to get USB automounting. It works just fine in my hands. Because it works directly from udev without spawning a runtime daemon, you have to sync and/or unmount the USB devices manually.
Obviously uam is not needed on a Crunchbang system, but it's a nice lightweight way to get USB sticks mounted without a lot of typing and daemonic overhead.
If you're a trusting soul, and I hope you're not, you can run the script below at your own risk. I would recommend using the script as a guide and entering the commands from a terminal so that you can deal with errors as they occur.
#!/bin/sh
# uam install script
# tranche
# Installs Michal Gorny's uam hal-less usb automounter
# uam = usb automounter
# not Universal Access Method
# You can read the README file here to decide if uam is something you want
# https://github.com/mgorny/uam
# If you don't have the git and autoconf packages, uncomment the following line
# sudo aptitude install intltool git autoconf
# NOTE: The script assumes you have a source directory called "src"
# below the current directory. (Ordinarily your home directory)
# If you don't have "src" the script creates it
# It then creates a subdirectory "src/uam" and builds the project there
# Create the build directory and get positioned to run git
mkdir -p src/uam
cd src/uam
# Get the sources from github
git clone https://github.com/mgorny/uam .
# Generate aclocal.m4
aclocal
# Generate a configuration script from template
autoconf
# Supply missing directory and files to avoid automake errors
touch AUTHORS NEW Changelog
mkdir build-aux
# Generate makefile.in, supplying missing elements as needed
automake --add-missing
# It's a good time to make a backup of the project
# before you clutter up the directory by doing the build
# (Best to change the filename to reflect the current git commit date)
# Uncomment the next three lines if you want to do this
# cd ..
# tar czf uam-git-mgorny-2011-01-30.tgz ./uam
# cd uam
# Do the build
./configure
make
# Uncomment the next line to install the program
# Best to leave it commented out until you're sure the build ran properly
# sudo make installIf anyone tries it out, I'd love to hear how it goes.
Last edited by tranche (2011-04-12 03:43:41)
