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Author: Arnt Karlsen
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To: dng
New-Topics: [DNG] USB mounting
Subject: Re: [DNG] logging uses of machine-id
On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 01:10:12 -0400, Steve wrote in message
<20190315011012.14cfcb85@???>:

> On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:45:08 +0100
> KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 04:43:44AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> >
> > [cut]
> >
> > >
> > > By the way, how did you detect insertion? Were you using dmesg
> > > --follow ?
> > >
> >
> > Much easier than that: since I am normally the only person who
> > inserts a stick in my computer, and I don't have any 100 meters
> > long USB cable running through the neighbourhood, I don't need any
> > particular method to "detect insertion", apart from being sober and
> > using my own short-term memory :)
>
> :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
>
> I feel like somebody asked me "who's buried in Grant's Tomb" and I
> answered "Lincoln". *Of course* you know when a stick has been
> inserted.


...whenever you stick anything into that box in front of you.

..now, some of us also play with boxes far away over ssh... ;o)

> In my personal case, I'd dedicate and easy right hand keystroke to
> running the shellscript, because my left hand will be returning from
> the computer's USB port at the time. I'd also add stuff to the
> shellscript to detect and mount every partition on the just-inserted
> stick.
>
> SteveT
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