Detecting and Automatically Mounting Pendrive on Raspbian Stretch Lite

In the lite version of Raspbian Stretch, i didn’t expect that i would have to manually mount the pendrive. I had a use case in which mounting it automatically was a necessity and thus i came across usbmount.

You can install it in raspbian using apt-get.

sudo apt-get install usbmount

Usbmount gives a lot of configuration options in /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf  but, for my use case the default were good enough.

This wasn’t enough though. It wasn’t detecting the usb stick. And, on searching i found out that i wasn’t the only one who was having this problem. For the usbmount to work in raspbian stretch, you will have to manually edit systemd file for udevd located in /lib/systemd/system/systemd-udevd.service and change MountFlags=slave to MountFlags=shared as someone commented here.