Overview

planter-drives is a simple framework for recognizing and classifying drives/partitions based on their UUID.

It distinguishes 5 types of partitions:

• source
• target (destination for file copy operations)
• fallback target (in case current target doesn't meet requirements)
• ignored (not used)
• user (all others)

Target partition has to be writable and to have created one of 3 directory schemes:

• .support/.files
• .files/.data
• files/data

If neither of them are present, or target partition is not mounted at all, /media/fallback directory is used instead (no matter, on which filesystem it is created).

Drive detection

planter-drives classifies drives using UUIDs of logical partitions. These serial numbers are checked against 3 configuration files on each add/remove event:

• /etc/planter/drives/ignore.list
• /etc/planter/drives/target.list
• /etc/planter/drives/source.list

These files are updated every 30 minutes, if network is working (you can edit crontab entry after setup eg. to update them less frequently).

Events

planter-drives doesn't detect plugging or unplugging devices on its own. It just exposes scripts, that should be executed on each add/remove event.

Installing

• clone this repository to chosen directory
• run setup.sh script as root

License

Author:	Tomasz Klim (opensource@tomaszklim.pl)
Copyright:	Copyright 2017-2020 Tomasz Klim
License:	MIT

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