fstab to mount as hal does it

[Seb <spluque@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I think it's hald daemon that mounts an external USB hard drive to
/media/DISK_LABEL whenever one clicks on its icon in a file browser or
the like.  This works very nicely if you're at the desktop, plug in a
device and want to access it for a while, then unplug it and go away
with your USB drive.  Permissions are left untouched in the USB tree,
and /media/DISK_LABEL has root permisions.  It's not practical though if
the drive is always by the desktop, as backup space or normal
filesystem.  I have a few such devices and would like to do what hal
does here, and avoid having to create a directory under /media with the
label of all the drives, and worry about all the different mounting
options and any other tricks hal does here.  Is there a way to have any
of these devices that are plugged in at boot up be mounted
automatically, to avoid having to mount them manually after booting?
Thanks.


-- 
Seb