Re: Basic USB Automounter?

[Patrick Bartek <bartek047@yahoo.com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 1:43 AM
> Subject: Re: Basic USB Automounter?
> 
> On Mi, 16 ian 13, 14:27:49, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>> 
>>  Will udisks automount USB devices--thumb drives, flash cards, external 
>>  hard disks, etc.--in BOTH terminal mode or GUI? I can't find any docs 
>>  that say specifically.  All assume having a GUI running.
> 
> As far as I know udisks is just a backend used by whatever is doing the 
> auto-mounting for your Desktop Environment (if you have any). However, 
> the package description also mentions a 'udisk' utility that works from 
> the command-line.


Had read about the command-line udisk, but IIRC this was for manually mounting (and unmounting) without needing root priviledges.  I was looking for automounting, and so didn't read much more than the general description before abandoning this tool.

Thanks for the suggestion.

B