Re: Basic USB Automounter?

[Patrick Bartek <bartek047@yahoo.com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Slavko <linux@slavino.sk>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: Patrick Bartek <bartek047@yahoo.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 2:14 PM
> Subject: Re: Basic USB Automounter?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Dňa Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:42:45 -0800 (PST) Patrick Bartek
> <bartek047@yahoo.com> napísal:
> 
>>  Thanks.  I had come across this in my research, and udisks-glue is in
>>  the Wheezy repos, but was hoping for one utility to handle all
>>  automounting (and unmounting) for usb drives (thumb drives as well as
>>  usb hard drives) and flash cards.  However, after much reading, I
>>  don't think such a do-it-all, works-out-of-the-box utility exists.
>>   There never ever seems to be a simple solution, does there?
> 
> You can try the Thunar and they thunar-volman, which comes with simple
> daemon for this. By default, the daemon is running from XDG autostart,
> and IMO this can be simple done by starting it from .bashrc or similar,
> but i never try it in console.
> 
> The plugin (daemon) is configurable from GUI only (i think).


I was looking for automounting that would work either without or with X or a desktop environment running.  When I do need a GUI, it will be just a window manager and not a full-fledged environment like GNOME or XFCE, etc.  

Thanks for the suggestion.

B