Re: How to automount USB disks at boot-up?

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Osamu Aoki wrote, on 03/03/09 00:46:
> > > Do you use modern desktop?  Gnome, KDE, ... then it automounts.
> > >
> > > If non X system, just add it to /etc/fstab
> > >
> > > Osamu
> > It didn't work for me in KDE 3.5.10 (running Debian unstable here). I  
> > might have the wrong packages installed.
>
> I see. Did you label drive when formatting it.  I use gnome.  KDE should
> do the same...
>
> > What I did was identify the 2 usbdrives I own and set up mount points  
> > for them and put the following in /etc/fstab:
> ...
>
> These are very good but a bit overkill...
>
> http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch11.en.html#removablemassstoragedevice
>
> This is how ... KDE may require user to be part of plugdev group or so
>
> Osamu

Hi, I'm using KDE and have pmount installed.

I'm in the following groups:

amarsh04 dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev users camera scanner

I also have usbmount installed but disabled in /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf:

# Change to zero to disable usbmount
ENABLED=0

As I only have 2 usb drives that are regularly attached to this machine, 
adding /etc/fstab entries with the "users" option enabling me to mount 
and unmount them by a simple userlevel command is fine for me.

I still get a kde prompt asking me what to do about the drive (caused by 
pmount?) but I always click on cancel anyway.

Regards,

Arthur.