Re: Mounting USB disks
Do you have the unstable version gparted installed? If so, and you use
hal (hardware abstraction layer), gparted installs the file
gparted-disable-automount.fdi in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy. This sets
the volume.ignore hal flag on all devices that are hotpluggable.
This was a very annoying problem to pinpoint, but it's not really a bug.
gparted just doesn't tell you about it.
simply removing the file and restarting hal makes automount work, but
this may not be advisable. Personally, I removed and purged the gparted
package, since I don't really need it.
Think I'm going to file a bug or something with gparted, since this is a
very drastic decision to make as default configuration.
- Jeremy
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