Triggering an action when a specific volume is connected

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Published on 2012-11-12T10:02:03Z Indexed on 2012/11/12 11:21 UTC
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I have a USB key that contains my keepass2 password database and I'd like to perform some actions when it is plugged into my computer, namely:

Auto-mount it to some specific location
When the mounting is done properly, launching keepass2 on the password database file

Simple tasks I guess, but I can't find how to do that.

I'm using Ubuntu 12.10, and it auto-mounts the device as a "media usb-key" and tries to open the images on it (even though there are none).

What is the best way to do that and to disable the ubuntu auto-mounting (so it doesn't conflict) ?

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