Removalable media is inserted

[expandables]

Hi is there a way in Raspbian to have this feature? For example when you put in your usb flash drive a prompt appear that says removal media insterted.
BTW I got this idea because i am using my laptop with Lubuntu and when i insert my usb flash drive the prompt appears.

[DougieLawson]

Search the forum, I posted a way to do this using a udev script and a udev rule to detect a USB device being inserted.

[expandables]

The search sucks. Also how would i exactly know what to search for?

[expandables]

OOPs I guess the search doesn't suck after all Marios voice: I got it http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... le#p710181

[expandables]

Mr. Lawson is this all i need to do?

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sudo nano /usr/local/bin/flash_drive

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#!/usr/bin/python

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
from time import sleep

GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
GPIO.setup(18, GPIO.OUT)

for i in range(20):
  GPIO.output(18, 1)
  sleep(0.1)
  GPIO.output(18, 0)
  sleep(0.1)

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sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/71-flash_drive.rules

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ACTION="add", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{removable}=="removable", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/flash_drive $kernel'"

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 sudo /etc/init.d/udev

[DougieLawson]

That should work as long as the device you insert has the "removable" attribute.

[Joe Schmoe]

Actually, this happens by default (at least in the latest Raspbian GUI).

I usually have to do work to turn it off (since I find this Windows behavior annoying [if I want Windows, I know which machines here have it installed and running]).

Then again, I usually turn this feature off in Windows as well.