Re: kde, udev, hal and friends...
Florian Kulzer wrote:
> 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,
Sorry, I'm still not quite correct. Ubuntu doesn't actually _mount_ USB
storage devices until you ask it to - it puts the device icon on the
desktop as you say Debian does. However, the point I was failing to make
is that the partition's label is used as the mount point if you have one.
--
derek
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