Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

[Martin Dickopp <martin-deb@zero-based.org>]

Matt Brubeck <mbrubeck@cs.hmc.edu> writes:

> Martin Dickopp wrote:
>
>> Both pmount and my package try to solve the same problem -- letting
>> users access removable media. The difference is that pmount allows
>> users to mount and unmount these devices manually, while my script
>> mounts and unmounts them automatically. Another difference is that
>> pmount requires the user to know the name of the device node (my
>> script doesn't), but pmount lets the user choose the mointpoint (my
>> script doesn't).
>
> pmount is designed to be used with udev/hal/gnome-volume-manager (or
> similar solutions for other desktops) to handle hotplugging.
>
> With g-v-m and pmount combined, devices are mounted and unmounted
> automatically, without requiring the user to know the device node.
> This is the solution used in Ubuntu 4.10.
>
> This was discussed recently on the debian-desktop list:
>
>   http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/2004/10/msg00022.html

Thanks for the pointer.

Martin


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