[Linux-disciples] Mounting a removable device when it's available

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 05:21:06PM -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> A user sticks a USB thumb drive in the USB port. I'd like it
> to mount automatically. I can't expect that the drive will
> be there when the machine boots, so I can't put 'auto' in
> /etc/fstab. But I would like it to mount right away when
> available. How do I do that?

I've seen this "just work" in recent Gnome releases, although I can't say
I know exactly how.  There is always the old standard--automounter daemon
(autofs)--maybe check out gnome-volume-manager, I think that might do the
trick.  When it works, there's almost no configuration required.
-- 
Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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