Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] automount USB
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:56:46
Message-Id: 20111011105518.520f6c0f@zaphod.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] automount USB by Michal Halenka
1 On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:44:00 +0200, Michal Halenka wrote:
2
3 > I am looking fow a way, how to automount USB disks (or CD) by normal
4 > user. I find many ways (udev, hal, policykit, udisks, autofs), but I am
5 > just ordinary user, so I don´t know which one is deprecated (hal?),
6 > which one is easy to use, and so one. Can you pass me some
7 > not-deprecated web page with manual, hoto realize this?
8
9 You don't say which DE you use, most implement this themselves.
10
11 > I would like to use something, which automatically mount PEN drives
12 > (ext3,ntfs,fat,...) or CD, and which allow me to unmount it with simple
13 > command without superuser permission. (I have root acess, but It's
14 > annoying to use it every time)
15 >
16 > The best would be to mount it into /media/LABEL.
17
18 pmount/pumount are good for mounting and unmounting drives as a normal
19 user. This is often the program used by automounters anyway. If defaults
20 to mounting at /media/label.
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24 Neil Bothwick
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26 Do you steal taglines too?

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