Re: Automount without desktop

[Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 12/05/2010 06:32 PM, Joel Roth wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm finding all the repetitive mount/unmount operations
> I do to be somewhat tedious.
>
> Can I get some reasonable automount functionality without
> installing a heavy-weight desktop? I currently use only
> light stuff: stumpwm or fvwm.
>
> I imagine I could write scripts to do it myself, but
> it seems impossible that someone else could not have
> done it before.
>
> As I write, I'm thinking of something simpleminded, like
> creating UUID fstab entries for each device, and having a
> cron job 'mount -a' everyone every 10 second or so.
>
> Let me know!
>
> Regards,
>
> Joel
Can't you put your devices in fstab and have them automount?
I think most of the Linuxes (except PCLINUXOS--BOO, HISS)
still use an fstab that's written in English.

--doug--

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