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| From: | Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE | ||
| Date: | Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:58:42 | ||
| Message-Id: | CAA2qdGUKDD7n3DGcMrfG9FMPMBE+19hdT2KvWF_Vg+u3Q9u6fw@mail.gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE by James Broadhead |
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| 1 | On Nov 17, 2011 4:51 PM, "James Broadhead" <jamesbroadhead@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 2 | > |
| 3 | > On 17 November 2011 09:07, Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.belardi@××.com> |
| 4 | wrote: |
| 5 | > > When I need to mount a removable USB device on LXDE (~amd64) I currently |
| 6 | > > manually issue the mount command. What do I need to do to make |
| 7 | > > automounting possible? |
| 8 | > > |
| 9 | > > According to LXDE wiki (1) you need HAL, which I don't have on my |
| 10 | > > system. I found several suggestions on the net but none seems promising. |
| 11 | > > Any hints to point me in the right direction? |
| 12 | > > |
| 13 | > > raffaele |
| 14 | > > |
| 15 | > > (1) |
| 16 | > > |
| 17 | http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXDE:Questions#Does_LXDE_automount_plugged_in_removable_devices_.28USB_drives.2C_Flash_disks.2C_etc.29.3F |
| 18 | > |
| 19 | > udev can do it - here's an Arch guide which is probably helpful: |
| 20 | > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev#Auto_mounting_USB_devices |
| 21 | > |
| 22 | > Personally, I use pmount, which allows plugdev-users to mount without |
| 23 | sudo. |
| 24 | > |
| 25 | > gentoo-wiki has an article on "AutoFS", but I've no idea about that. |
| 26 | > |
| 27 | |
| 28 | What about mdev? Can it do that too? |
| 29 | |
| 30 | Rgds, |