That is a neat idea for "cartridge games". Are you just going to buy a bunch of low capacity SSDs and make a sort of pseudo console?

I think you could achieve something like this with creating an udev rule which matches your external hard drive and runs a script.

Quoting: AnxiousInfusionThat is a neat idea for "cartridge games". Are you just going to buy a bunch of low capacity SSDs and make a sort of pseudo console?

Exactly! That is my idea..

..low capacity SSd's or, if the game is less than 32GB, the idea is to use those really fast USB 3 flash drives that outperform the most electromechanical 2.5 hdd's

I really miss the beautiful Plug'n'Play simplicity of the good old days of the gaming consoles like the Sega Genesis or Snes.

And this is why I hate modern consoles...


I have a similar idea for my steam library..

With udev Rules is possible to do it but I guess you may have to experiment a bit.

For example for a USB Drive(the one I use mostly) to run a local script.sh just in case if you want to have the launcher located on your pc.

sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/11autorunusb.rules

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device",RUN+="/usr/bin/local/script.sh"

But in case you want to go hot swap I guess is a bit more complicate something like this (havent test it)

create another /etc/udev/rules.d/22hotswap.rules:

# mount-devices
KERNEL=="sd[a-z][0-9]", ENV{ID_MODEL_ID}=="yourmodelid", ENV{ID_VENDOR_ID}=="yourvendorid", ACTION=="add", ENV{mount_options}="relatime", RUN+="/usr/bin/local/script.sh"

I think the freedesktop Autostart spec (check under heading Autostart Of Applications After Mount) is supported by Xfce's Thunar at least. Needs to be enabled in the volume manager config though.