usbmount | working copy of Rogério Brito | File Utils library

usbmount is a Shell library typically used in Utilities, File Utils applications. usbmount has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Users should be aware that, independently of the filesystem used by the mass storage device, ANY filesystem that resides in flash memory will become unreadable after some time. This unfortunate situation is intrinsic to the storage medium and better quality flash drives perform a "wear levelling" operation, distributing the load of operations across the whole device. [*]. Filesystems using flash memory and mounted with the "sync" option can degrade earlier due to the fact that the sync mount option forces the operating system to write data more frequently to the device than if it were mounted without the sync option. So, why mount filesystems with the sync option then? The reason is to keep the written data on the drive reflecting what the user thinks is on the flash drive, and, more importantly, to avoid the problem of the user unplugging the device before it is finished receiving data that the kernel has on the memory of the computer and that is meant to be written to the device. If you don’t like the sync option with your filesystems, then you can remove it from the configuration file of usbmount and use your devices with better performance and longer life time. BUT you should always make sure that you use the "sync" command (on a shell) to ensure that there is no writes pending for the device in question, so that you don’t loose any data when you unplug the device from the computer. [*] You can see if your flash drives support wear levelling by seeing the technical specifications of your specific drives in the manufacturer’s site (e.g., the manufacturer Kingston provides such information regarding its drives and others quite probably do that too). Of course, usbmount doesn’t only work with flash drives. Common hard drives put into enclosures are perfectly used with usbmount and usbmount, despite its name, can mount drives connected via Firewire ports, provided that the kernel has support for it (most distribution kernels, including the ones shipped with Debian and Ubuntu do).