Re: [gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

[Dale]

luis jure wrote:
>
> hello list,
>
> i'm old-fashioned and i never cared for this automount thing, but now i
> have two pen drives and two usb hard disks that i have to mount and umount
> all the time, and doing it by hand every time is beginning to be very
> annoying...
>
> i see that distributions like ubuntu and others have this feature by
> default: you plug in a pen drive and it creates a mount point under /media
> and mounts the device there. but i have no idea to get something like that
> working on my gentoo machine. i searched the web, but the documents i
> found on the subject are somewhat contradictory and all of them too old
> for comfort.
>
> any hints about a standard "gentoo way" to achieve this?
>
> by the way, i use xfce, so i can't use tools specific for kde or gnome, if
> they exist.
>
> best,
>
> lj
>
>

I know what xfce is but not have no experience with it.  Would this help?

[I] sys-fs/udisks
      Available versions:  1.0.1-r1!t{tbz2} 1.0.2!t{tbz2} 
{bash-completion debug doc nls remote-access}
      Installed versions:  1.0.2!t{tbz2}(18:36:11 02/25/11)(nls 
-bash-completion -debug -doc -remote-access)
      Homepage:            http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/udisks
      Description:         Daemon providing interfaces to work with 
storage devices

* xfce-extra/xfce4-mount-plugin
      Available versions:  0.5.5 {debug}
      Homepage:            http://www.xfce.org/
      Description:         Mount plugin for the Xfce panel

That last one should put you on the right path for sure.

Hope the helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)