Auto USB copy, how does it work? [solved]
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So I've been trying to figure out how the RetroPie USB-to-SD autocopy works. The functionality that takes any roms in retropie/roms from the USB stick and copies them to the appropriate folders on the SD card. I would have guessed it to be executed by some udev rule, but I can't for the life of me find any that seems to initiate any such thing.
Does it run a script? What initiates this? Where are the relevant files located?
Any help on the technical aspect of this would be appreciated. Thanks!
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@muldjord Hello there ! It's not using
udev, but a special service - usbmount - which drops some files to be executed in /etc/usbmount/mount.d when a new mount-able device appears. -
Thanks @mitu, that'll get me started :D
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