KNOPPIX no longer creates all mount points and symlinks with flash drive ?
Hello
Is KNOPPIX no longer creating the mount points and symlinks to your partitions of the hard
drive ?
Perhaps you would like to have '/mnt/iso' and '/mnt/img' added also ?
Well, this shell script called 'mkdirs.sh' should do the job.
After making a bootable flash drive, installing .deb files, and putting the programs that I wanted, booting KNOPPIX again didn't create all the symlinks like a fresh install does.
Here is my solution instead of creating all those mount points by hand.
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#!/bin/sh
#
# This script removes the 'temp' directory in home as well as the existing '/mnt' and '/media' mount points.
# The /etc/fstab is scanned and filtered to only print '/dev/xxxx' and '/media/xxxx' into a temp file.
# The temp file is echoed to screen.
# the '/media/xxxx' mount points are created from this file.
# A for loop reads '/media/*' to get the 'hdxxx, or sdaxx, sdbxx' and so on.
# By using ln -s, we create symlinks to '/media/xxxx'.
# So, now we have '/mnt/sda1 -> '/media/sda1', or whatever the mount point directory is.
# Note error messages are sent to the '/dev/null' black hole, or bit-bucket.
#
# Wayne D. Andrews, September 6, 2010 aka, Flying2Eagles
#
# Remove temp file in home directory.
rm -rf ~/temp 2> /dev/null
# Delete existing directory.
#Delete current /media and /mnt directories, we will re-create them.
#
rm -rf /media/* 2> /dev/null # This prevents 'File Not Found' message.
rm -rf /mnt/* 2> /dev/null
# Create a new '~/temp' folder.
mkdir ~/temp 2>/dev/null
# Echo text from '/etc/fstab'
# Print fields 1 and 2.
#Delete all lines starting with '#'.
#Delete 'sysfs'.
#delete 'proc'
#Omit line with 'none'.
# Send output to file named 'temp1'.
cat /etc/fstab|awk '{print $1, $2}'|sed -e '/^#/d' -e '/^proc/d' -e '/^sysfs/d'|
grep -iv none > ~/temp/temp1
# change to '~temp' directory.
cd ~/temp/
# Echo temp1 file, read a line.
cat temp1|while read line
do
# Print results to screen.
echo $line
# Create directory from text.
mkdir $line 2> /dev/null
done
mkdir /media/iso 2> /dev/null
echo "/media/iso"
mkdir /media/img 2> /dev/null
echo "/media/img"
# Delete '~/temp/temp1' folder & file.
rm -rf ~/temp 2>/dev/null
cd /media/
med='/media/'
mount='/mnt/'
cd $med
for i in *
do
ln -s "$med"$i "$mount"$i
echo 'Link ' "$mount$i"' ->'"$med$i" ' Created'
done
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This script seems to work ok for my wireless Acer Aspire One netbook.
I haven't tried it on my desktop computer yet.
This script is run prior to mounting anything first.
If you can make it better please do so, as I'm using the Linux Pocket Guide to get ideas for this script.
Don't forget the usual 'chmod u+rwx mkdirs.sh' to make the script executable.
Put it in the '/mnt-system/' directory.
Flying2Eagles
:-D
