Auto-mounting of USB drives

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 20:50 +0100, Lee Willis wrote:
> I've scanned the archives, and googled to death but haven't managed to
> find an answer to my query - if there's something that will answer these
> then a pointer would be great.
> 
> I have a USB drive (A sandisk 128MB Cruzer Mini USB 2.0 Flash Drive -
> http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=799599998&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=59365)
> and my understanding would be that hal & friends could enable me to get
> this automatically mounted when inserted, however try as I might I can't
> quite get it working. It seems to be recognized and made available as
> /dev/sda1, and I can manually mount it, but I can't get it to
> auto-mount. 
> 
> I've copied fstab-update.sh into the right place, and I've added debug
> which suggests that this is indeed called, but hal doesn't seem to set
> up the right environment args for this to work. I've also tried creating
> an .fdi file in case that was required, but I still didn't get anywhere.
> 
> I've uploaded the output from --daemon=no (With my modifications, all
> flagged LW) to http://www.lwillis.plus.com/output.txt if that's any use.
> 
> Any clues?

A couple of questions:

What distro are you running and how did you setup the project utopia
stack?

What does you /etc/fstab look like after you plug in your USB drive?

Are you running gnome-volume-manager in your current session?

Did you or your distro run udevstart on bootup?

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri
Associate Software Engineer
Desktop Group
Red Hat, Inc.
Blog: http://martianrock.com


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