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Re: Mounting USB stuff



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On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:50:15 +0200, Michael S. Peek wrote:
> for that matter, without the user having to even know what "mount" means. 
> (After all, if I let users mount stuff, it's just a matter of time before 
> someone forgets to unmount, and then they call me wondering why files are 
> broken/missing.)

autofs is your friend, mounts a device when the associated directory is
accessed, then unmounts it after a configurable period of inactivity. Don't
know how you'd obscure the difference between sda1 & sdb1 though.


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