Re: kde, udev, hal and friends...
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:13:06 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
[...]
> > Where do you figure that? Every time I install a USB storage device it's
> > automatically mounted, and yes, it's mounted at /media/<label> (provided a
> > partition label exists). Why _shouldn't_ udev mount? Hotplug could, and
> > udev replaces it. Non-removable storage is not automatically mounted
> > (though it could be if you wanted it), but removables are handled
> > differently.
>
> Oops, sorry - YMMV :-)
>
> I'm using Ubuntu, so it's entirely possible that this behaviour isn't
> happening under Debian - but this doesn't change the fact that such
> behaviour _is_ configurable.
The "RUN" key can be used to make udev execute a script when a device is
created. I have never tried myself to automount devices that way, but I
would assume that it is possible to do so. Ubuntu might use this, or an
approach similar to what we discussed earlier in this thread. Debian
does not set this up by default, and many KDE users seem to be satisfied
with having the mounting happen when they click on the device icon on
the desktop. I think the Ubuntu behavior is not just an activated option
in a configuration file somewhere, but rather some dedicated customization
which required additional scripting etc. to set up.
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Regards,
Florian
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