Re: Pendrive not mounted - and chroot

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Sat August 16 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > so, how do I put that in a sentence and use it:)
>
> Edit /etc/fstab and add this:
>
> UUID="686C-7E81" /media/SOME_THUMB vfat defaults,noauto  0 2
>
> Then do:
> # mount -v /media/SOME_THUMB

that worked!
>
> pmount will also work.
>
that didn't work in KDE..

> > I looked in control center, under peripherals,storage media, but nothing
> > jumps out at me about making it automount ..
> > ok, so I spent the last hour working on autofs..
> > I can get the device mounted like this:
> > mount /dev/sdg /media/sdg1
> >
> > but not using autofs..
>
> GNOME handles automounting for me.  Sorry.

and you are right! I logged out of KDE, logged in to gnome, plugged in the USB 
stick, and a nautilus window popped up with my USB stick files...
and was still able to run Kontact:)

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Paul Cartwright
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