How to configure USBMount

USBMount is a useful program and daemon that can be used to automount disk drives and flash drives plugged into USB ports. I use it with Raspbian for this purpose.

All the settings of USBMount can be changed from its configuration file /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf

The parameters that can be modified from this file:

• ENABLED: 1 to enable, 0 to disable USBMount.
• MOUNTPOINTS: String of space-delimited mount points that should be used.
• FILESYSTEMS: String of space-delimited filesystems that should be mounted. If you are going to use USB storage with NTFS partitions, then add ntfs ntfs-3g fuseblk to the list. Also make sure you have the ntfs-3g package installed.
• MOUNTOPTIONS: String of comma-delimited mount options that will be used with the mount program to mount all the filesystems.
• FS_MOUNTOPTIONS: Mount options that are specific to particular filesystem.
• VERBOSE: no is brief logging to /var/syslog, yes is verbose logging. I like to change to yes so that it is easy to diagnose usbmount problems by looking at the syslog.

Note that some of the drives I mounted would initially only have write permissions for root and not for other users. The solution was to change the ownership to my user, for example: sudo chown joe:joe /media/usb2.

Tried with: USBMount 0.0.22 and Raspbian 7