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A script to automount external USB HDD with the executable bit set

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Recent releases of Ubuntu mounts external USB HDD in userspace and hence it does not set the executable bit on the drive. As a result if I try to run softwares or scripts installed in the external HDD I have to pmount it manually. So I wrote a small script which would - 1. verify that drive is mounted. 2. it is not empty(from a previous manual mount unmount cycle) 3. then unmount the drive and re-mount it in userspace with the executable bit set.

I wanted this script to be minimal. So I did not make it complicated which accepts a drive LABEL from the user and uses it. Just replace your drives LABEL in place of "passport-2" in the second line of the script. So if your external drive is called Sandisk replace passport-2 with Sandisk. If it turns out that the script fails due the use of $LABEL, then replace all $LABEL in the entire script with your drive label manually.

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#!/bin/bash
$LABEL=passport-2
cd /media
# check if $LABEL exists
if [ ! -d "$LABEL" ]; then
echo "ERROR : " $LABEL" not found in /media"
echo "Plugin drive or mount" $LABEL "...."
exit 0
fi
# even if $LABEL exist it might be empty because of manual mount and unmount. then prompt user to manually remove that folder and remount $LABEL. if no. of files inside $LABEL is 2 it only has . and .. So it is basically empty.
cd /media/$LABEL
filecount=`ls -l | wc -l`
if [[ $filecount -lt 3 ]]; then
echo
echo "ERROR : Empty /media/"$LABEL " found."
echo -e "Remove empty " $LABEL " as root ... remount correctly ... not attempting to do myself because it can cause potential loss of data."
exit
fi
loca=`df | grep $LABEL | cut -f1 -d" " `
echo $LABEL " is at device node : " $loca
sudo umount -l /media/$LABEL
if [ ! -d "$LABEL" ]; then
echo "Remounting passport-2 in RW mode with executable bit set."
pmount --fmask 077 -d -e $loca $LABEL
fi

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