Auto Copy Files When USB Mounted

[mk01]

@mjbrown

timeout on udev rules makes perfect sense. otherwise udevtrigger could block booting of system.

to check if this is problem, make your usbcopy.sh just wrapper to launch another - real copy script as spawned process. so in usbcopy.sh called from udev rull do just

Code:

/run/my/real/copy.sh &

this way copy process will start as another process and usbcopy.sh rule will return to udev immediately.

another approach and maybe more suitable would be to re-use xbians usbmount implementation (auto usb storage mounter).

it itself is called by a udev rule, spawned, and mounts your drive. it is already designed to provide "hooks" for user to easy inject the mount and umount events. all you need is to copy your scrtipt into /etc/usbmount/mount.d . all scripts here are started after disk is mounted. you don't need any conf files changes / updates.

it even provides some internal info to the scripts, like UM_MOUNTPOINT is actual dir where the disk is mounted, and others ...
UM_DEVICE - filename of the device node
UM_MOUNTPOINT - mointpoint
UM_FILESYSTEM - filesystem type
UM_MOUNTOPTIONS - mount options that have been passed to the mount command
UM_VENDOR - vendor of the device (empty if unknown)
UM_MODEL - model name of the device (empty if unknown)

some basic doc is at /usr/share/doc/usbmount/README.gz . but again, just put the script into relevant hook folder and you are done.