Auto mount and share usb drive at same address

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Hi,

I’m looking for a way to mount a usb flash drive always at the same “address” (regardless of which drive) and to share it with samba.
I think sharing with samba is not a problem…

But as each drive has got another ID they will be mounted automatically with /media/ which changes…
So my goal to connect always only 1 drive and to make it available at the same address and to share it.

I found that the package “usbmount” seems to do exactly this but it seems to be no longer maintained and I can’t install it as it seems not to work on debian stretch. Message: “Unable to locate package usbmount”.

Any ideas on how to do this? I searched already a lot but can’t find an easy solution.
If I’d need a reboot that wouldn’t be a problem.

Thanks,
Viktor

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Well easiest way is to give every USB stick the same label as automount uses the label to define the mount point

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Hi,

Thanks for your quick reply. Would that work with “new” sticks that were not connected yet?
Any hint how to do it?

Thanks,
Viktor

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That would work with any USB stick as long as it has a label.
You can either set the label at time of formatting or later. The tool to be used depends on the filesystem used on the stick

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Ok, wow. That seems to work and is a good solution for me :slight_smile:
Thank you!