inotify missing events

Question

I want to monitor USB-Keys on my system. I know they are always mounted in /media so I use inotify to monitor /media. Some USB Keys create a folder (e.g. sda) when plugged which

Answer 1

1. You can use inotifywait command (from the inotify-tools package) to monitor the /media directory, in order to check whether the inotify events which interest you do occur.
   reference:
   http://www.noah.org/wiki/Inotify,_FAM,_Gamin#Examples_with_inotify-tools

2. If inotify does miss events, the reason might be:
   Inotify does report some but not all events in sysfs and procfs.
   (Well, I can not say for sure. Just my guess.)

Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify#Limitations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysfs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procfs