Re: mounting error USB stick

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

Florian Kulzer on 27/02/08 22:01, wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:01:54 +0000, Adam Hardy wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > > > > > > > On Sun February 24 2008, Adam Hardy wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > Using xfce, Thunar used to pick up on the new usb storage device and put an
> > > > > > > > > > icon in its tree pane for me with the usb stick's name. Clicking on that
> > > > > > > > > > would then mount it to /media 
>
> [...]
>
> > So hal is actually meant to mount the usb stick automatically? Not just show an
> > icon in thunar? How about CDs?
>
> I don't know that; I guess that depends on the "philosophy" of
> xfce/thunar. To the normal user it probably does not matter exactly
> when the mounting happens, as long as he/she can click on the icon at
> any time and access the media. 

My philosophy is that I never remember that it's /dev/sda1 on this machine 
because my memory is, er... what's the word again ....

Generally when copying stuff to a usb stick, I use the command line. So I would 
appreciate automatic mounting of my usb stick to /media/somewhere. Except that 
this 'automation' involves going from the command line into thunar or the 
desktop and clicking to get it mounted.

For the test I did with the other user, you guessed correctly that I didn't add 
the user to the plugdev group.

Do you run hal and does it mount usb sticks and cds automatically?


Regards
Adam