Re: /media - create directory on usb device insertion
Christof Hurschler wrote:
On a freinds newly installed testing machine usb partitions that are plugged
in are added to /media as sda1 for example.
On my older machine, also running testing, this does not occur. Which
package is doing this, or how can I enable this functionality?
Hi Chris,
I think you need to do the following:
1) Install the packages "udev", "dbus-1" and "hal".
2) Install the package "pmount" and add your user to the group
"plugdev". This user can now mount/unmount all pluggable devices via the
pmount/pumount command without the need for a corresponding entry in
/etc/fstab.
3) If you use KDE you can choose to have icons appear on the desktop
whenever such a device is plugged in; you set this in the KDE Control
Center > Desktop > Behavior > Device Icons. I am sure that Gnome has a
similar option.
4) If you do not want to depend on KDE or Gnome you can probably use the
packages "autofs" and "am-utils" for mounting the devices automatically.
I have never tried this myself, though, therefore I can't give you more
specific advice on this.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Florian
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