Re: USB Pen / Thumb / Keyring Drive
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 10:52 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 16:42 +0100, Graham Smith wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was just given a small USB pen drive and would like to get it working with
> > Debian. I am sure you are probable thinking "Oh god not another n00b that
> > can't mount a drive" but thankfully you would be wrong. I don't have any
> > problems mounting the device but it feels very clunky compared to Windows
> > where you just stick the drive in and hey presto it's there ready to be used.
> >
> > What I would like it something that will just automagically mount the drive. I
> > have installed the usbmount package (which I presume is the same as
> > usb-mount) but it doesn't seem to do anything. It's created /media/cdrom
> > and /media/usb directories but that is it - it doesn't mount the drive when I
> > plug it in. I am running KDE on Debian unstable and certain sites seem to
> > indicate that one can get KDE to create an icon on the desktop when a usb
> > drive is plugged in.
> >
> > Basically I'm interested to know what are my options are?
>
> udev & (if you use GNOME) gnome-volume-manager.
I just added mount point /usbkey to /etc/fstab
# USB keys
/dev/sda1 /usbkey vfat users,noauto 0 0
on my 2.4.x box
Reply to: