Re: handling removable media without gnome-volume-manager

[Greg Madden <gomadtroll@acsalaska.net>]

On Friday 26 March 2010 08:46:05 pm briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> ivman ?
> automount ?
>
> I'd like something where I can encode the behavior for particular
> devices, i.e. as I'm using the same devices over and over I'd like a
> way to make sure that the same device gets mapped to the same thing.
>
> Not needing X to be up and running is nice too.
>
> teh google reveals the above choices.
>
> I don't think that automount is quite right, seems like it will work,
> but wasn't really designed for the task.
>
> ivman is several years old, and I'm wondering if it's been superseded
> by something else.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian

I use 'UUID=' to identify each file system, in my fstab, with the 'noauto'  option. 
Create a directory  in /media/<device name> and use the mount command. I use this 
for usb sticks and externel hard drives. The 'blkid' command will give you the 
UUID for a file system. 

Mine way is all manual not sure of the automagic way, either way 'UUID='  is 
useful.

-- 
Peace

Greg Madden