Need computer to detect hard-drive automatically and run script

[J-E-N-O-V-A]

i need to run a script every time i plug in my external hard-drive, but i don't want to have to click a file or paste a command into terminal, how can i make sure the script runs as soon as i plug it in?

[steeldriver]

You could write a udev rule (perhaps based on the idVendor and idProduct ATTRS to uniquely identify the device), and give it a RUN action pointing to your script

[tgalati4]

Some links:

http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
http://hackaday.com/2009/09/18/how-to-write-udev-rules/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1290438

[ManamiVixen]

Try cuttlefish. It does stuff like that!

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/a...ith-cuttlefish