Free discs software for linux

cfgstoragemaker remotely generates an MRTG config file in order to graph all storage devices (disk, memory, and swap) of one or more specific host(s) via SNMP.

Mounttero automatically mounts most storage devices such as USB drives and cameras, DVDs, CDROMs, hard disks, and floppies.

Devices are mounted when users opens their directory, such as /mnt/auto/cdrom, and are unmounted when the directory remains unused for four seconds.

Usage

For example, when user opens directory /mnt/auto/usb/, digital camera is automatically mounted and all the pictures shown in the directory. After four seconds of inactivity, device is unmounted and can be detached.

Manual Configuration

The rest of this document describes manual configuration of mounttero. If you installed the rpm, it did all this configuration automatically and you dont need manual configuration. The scripts below contain some latest and greatest version 0.5 improvements that have not made it to rpm yet, namely more usb partitions.

Create the directories used by the automounter. The directory is the one mentioned in /etc/auto.master:

# mkdir -p /mnt/auto/autofs

Create auto.master to tell autofs daemon that /mnt/auto/autofs directory is handled according to auto.tero

# /etc/auto.master
# mountpoint map options # see also: man 8 autofs
/mnt/auto/autofs /etc/auto.tero --timeout=4

List the actual mountpoints and devices in the automounter map

# /etc/auto.tero
# http://iki.fi/karvinen/linux/doc/automatic-mounting-autofs.html
# mountpoint_key options location_device # man 5 autofs
cdrom -fstype=auto,ro,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/cdrom
cdrom1 -fstype=auto,ro,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/cdrom1
usb -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sda1
# second and third partitions in usb device:
usb2 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :dev/sda2
usb3 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :dev/sda3
floppy -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/fd0

hda1 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hda1
hda2 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hda2
hda3 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hda3
hda4 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hda4

hdb1 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdb1
hdb2 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdb2
hdb3 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdb3
hdb4 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdb4

hdc1 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdc1
hdc2 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdc2
hdc3 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdc3
hdc4 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdc4

hdd1 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdd1
hdd2 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdd2
hdd3 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdd3
hdd4 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hdd4

# Serial ATA (SATA) disks are IDE emulated in Linux 2.6
hde1 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hde1
hde2 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hde2
hde3 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hde3
hde4 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hde4

# (c) 2003, 2004-05-29, 2004-09-19 Tero.Karvinen atta iki.fi

# /etc/init.d/autofs restart

Now drives are automatically mounted when you try to access them. You can test it by inserting a cdrom, and cd /mnt/auto/autofs/cdrom. The CDROM is automatically mounted, and ls should show you contents of the cd. When you cd to another directory, such as home directory (cd), CDROM is umounted in four seconds and the eject button in the drive starts working.

To see which drives are mountable (have discs in drive), you can create symlinks (similar to shortcuts) to the mountpoints. You can create the symlinks manually for each drive, for example

# cd /mnt/auto/
# ln -s autofs/cdrom cdrom

Original Disk Mount Applet is the original disk mount panel applet.

This is the same as the disk mounter included through GNOME 2.8. For GNOME 2.10 the official applet was rewritten, the new version adds the ability to autodetect mountable devices, but drops a significant (all) configurability.

It no longer allows you to choose which devices are displayed on the panel, their order, or icon representation.

Install this applet if you want to restore the old disk mounter behavior for GNOME 2.10.

CD Shell is a scriptable menu system that provides the ability to create interactive multi-boot optical discs. It will make PC-bootable compact discs or DVDs that can select from several program loaders or kernels located on the disc, or boot from other local disk drives that are attached to the system.
This utility is based heavily on concepts pioneered by Bart Lagerweij in his great program Diskem1x. CD Shell provides similar functionality to Diskem1x along with many new original features, such as an advanced scripting language, graphics, and mouse support. It also has the ability to interface with other great programs such as isolinux/memdisk, Ranish Partition Manager, and Memtest86+.
CD Shell is free for non-commercial use. The program and its source code is distributed under the NASM License. The distribution and use of some optional components is restricted by their respective licenses.
Enhancements:
- changed behavior of display.message to interpret a backslash as a single-character quote if not recognized as an escape sequence (suggested by Erwin Veermans of the Ultimate Boot CD project)
- isolinux patches as suggested by Charles Appel of the Ultimage Boot CD project
- patched a bug in isolinux that would display some garbage characters when loading a kernel (just before Ready)
- changed behavior for the display command to not show a splash screen unless isolinux was invoked with an empty command line
- incorporated changes to chooser script
- allow onEscape action when user quits the menu
- allow per-item exececute-on-select commands
- fixed a bug where text in the message window wasnt being updated correctly

KaTeker is a backup tool for Linux useful for small companies and private people. It saves data onto hard disk and CDs or other random access media.

cdgtools are tools for handling and ripping CD+G karaoke disks.
Main features:
- Rips CD+G karaoke disks using cdrdao
- Encodes the tracks to MP3+G files
- Gets track names from FreeDB/CDDB
- Includes GUI and command-line tools