Mohamed Abdelatif - My Blog

It may not seem as easy as it actually is, that's why I decided to share it. Here it is a bash script that once executed updates pidgin's status with the name of the track running Rhythmbox music player

#!/bin/bash

while [ 1 ]
do
out=$( rhythmbox-client --no-start --print-playing)
#echo "I'm now listening to $out"
echo `/usr/bin/purple-remote "setstatus?status=available&message=Listening to $out"`
sleep 5
done

1. Step One: Determine Which partition do you want to mount automatically.
   You have to know your target partition's Linux name, which differs from partitions' labels (those names given to partitions in Windows like "Sources", "Entertainment" ..).
   
   • Installing a suitable Disk-Scanner is a good idea to give you good information about your disk if you don't already know, I suggest gparted
     

     sudo apt-get gparted

   • Once installed, run it
     

     sudo gparted

     to see something like:
     
     
     
     
     now determine which partition you'd like to attach, and know its name (the column at the most left with heading "Partition"), I'll assume it is [my_part]
2. Step Two: Determine Where to attach the target partition
   Lets assume you want attach the partition in the directory [my_dir], you have to create the directory
   

   sudo mkdir [my_dir]

3. Step 3: Tell Ubuntu to attach Partition[Step 1] in Directory[Step 2]
• Open the file /etc/fstab as root
  

  gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

• Add the line
  

  [my_part] [my_dir] vfat auto,users,uid=1000,gid=100,utf8,dmask=027,fmask=1 37 0 0

  And dont forget to
  
  • Replace [my_part] with your partition (got from step 1)
  • Replace [my_dir] with your directory (got from step 2)
  • Replace "vfat" (which is for FAT32 partitions) with ntfs for NTFS partitions
• Save and close /etc/fstab
4. Step Four: Try attaching new entries in the /etc/fstab
, by typing

sudo mount -a