Re: /media - create directory on usb device insertion

[Chris <list.hurschler@gmx.de>]

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 19:04, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> 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

Thanks!!!

-- 
C. Hurschler