Re: Allowing users to mount external drive/thumbdrive

["Chris Henry" <chrishenry.ni@gmail.com>]

Clarification below:

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Chris Henry <chrishenry.ni@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>  I've just reinstalled a windows computer with debian today. While I
>  can add an entry to fstab to allow user to be able to mount an
>  external drive, it won't allow flexible usage of external
>  drive/thumbdrive. I realized that Ubuntu allows users to plug just
>  about anything and have it automatically mounted. Can I do the same in
>  Debian? That means, allowing user to plug a thumbdrive or external
>  drive and let the computer do the rest.
>
>  Btw, one of the external drive was formatted with NTFS and HFS+. While
>  Debian can autodetect NTFS partition, it seems that it fails to
>  autodetect HFS+ partition (manual mount with -t hfsplus works though).
Ok, the problem actually only happens for NTFS and HFS+ partitions. I
just managed to get a thumbdrive and it mounted fine.

Chris