[How To] V2 Pink Pogo Plug -- get auto mount working

[Sinatics]

Hey guys, after asking a few questions on this forum I was able to get auto mount playing nicely with my V2 Pink Pogo Plug, Since it took me awhile to find the information here I figured I'd share how I got it working to help others.

Here is a link to my post further down on this thread that goes through the steps I took to make things work.

[xenoxaos]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'pacman -S ntfs-3g')

[moonman]

did you JUST install alarm? if so udev-automount does not work with ntfs-3g anymore.
Use this instead: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=4376&start=10#p24167

[xenoxaos]

I did not know that udev-automount didnt play nicely with ntfs anymore....as all my external media is either ext, btrfs, or fat.

[pepedog]

udev-automount doesn't work on anything on trimslice now. Massive entries in syslog, then although drive not mounted, it is but you can't unmount. Could be a systemd thing?
As moonman said, udevil works well

[Sinatics]

SOLVED and UPDATE to help others:

Alright, This is what I did to fix my issue. This is for the V2 Pink PogoPlug:

1. Use Gparted to create ext3 partition on thumb drive
2. Use live CD (Knopppix) to run the following commands on the thumb drive:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
sudo su
')
**find usb mount point in file browser**
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
cd /media/<mount point>
wget http://archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-armv5te-latest.tar.gz
tar xvzf ArchLinuxARM-armv5te-latest.tar.gz
sync
umount /media/<mount point>
')

SSH into pogoplug with no flash drive inserted and run the following to make ext3 file systems bootable:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
/usr/sbin/fw_setenv usb_rootfstype ext3
')

Insert flash drive into pogoplug and reboot then SSH in and run these commands:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
pacman -Syu
pacman -Sy udevil
systemctl enable devmon@root.service
systemctl start devmon@root.service
')

At this point you should be able to plug in a ntfs/fat32/ext3 formated drive and have it automount. You can find its mount point by running $this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'df -H') hope this helped a few people since I was super confused when I got my pogoplug a few days ago.

**If this process still doesn't work for you try a different flash drive. I tried using an older 2GB Sandisk Cruzer and an older 1GB PNY flash drives -- Both of which had issues. I finally got this working with a newer 2GB PNY flash drive. YMMV, I plan to switch out to a SanDisk Cruzer Fit 16GB in a few days when I get it in the mail. Hope this has been helpful!

[kmihelich]

This has been on the main site for some time now: Reinstallation