Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: thegeezer <thegeezer@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 19:24:20
Message-Id: 53F10149.2080608@thegeezer.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives by Alan McKinnon
1 >
2 > udisks
3 +1
4 >
5 > Google knows enough about it to lead you to the nirvana state of
6 > increased understanding.
7 >
8 +1
9
10 very loosely:
11 udisks needs polkit to check the current user is authorised to mount
12 internal drives or usb drives (this threw me at first as there are two
13 rules you need to assign)
14
15 udisks uses dbus for the notification of disconnect / connect to/from
16 the desktop environment.
17
18 icon on the desktop depends on the desktop you have - but this should be
19 automagic
20
21 hth