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From:	Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device
Date:	Sun, 08 Oct 2006 23:15:07
Message-Id:	`1160348978.8933.1.camel@orpheus`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device by Stephen Liu

1	On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 09:05 -0700, Stephen Liu wrote:
2	> Hi folks,
3	>
4	> Gentoo_64
5	>
6	> gnome-light
7	>
8	> When the USB enclosure is plugin hotplug detects it. But it won't mount
9	> it automatically showing it as an icon on desktop. I have to mount it
10	> manually on console. Please advise which file I have to edit enabling
11	> auto-mount when the USB enclosure is plugged. TIA
12
13	There are a couple of things it might be:
14
15	1. install gnome-volume-manager
16	2. add yourself to the plugdev group
17	3. remove any lines in /etc/fstab for the same device you want to
18	automount
19
20	post back with results if that still fails!
21
22	HTH,
23	--
24	Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
25
26	And that's the way it is...
27	-- Walter Cronkite
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