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From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:39:38 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1160348978.8933.1.camel@orpheus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061006160514.80813.qmail@web35213.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 09:05 -0700, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Gentoo_64
> 
> gnome-light
> 
> When the USB enclosure is plugin hotplug detects it. But it won't mount
> it automatically showing it as an icon on desktop. I have to mount it
> manually on console. Please advise which file I have to edit enabling
> auto-mount when the USB enclosure is plugged. TIA

There are a couple of things it might be:

1. install gnome-volume-manager
2. add yourself to the plugdev group
3. remove any lines in /etc/fstab for the same device you want to
automount

post back with results if that still fails!

HTH,
-- 
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

And that's the way it is...
		-- Walter Cronkite

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-08 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-06 16:05 [gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device Stephen Liu
2006-10-08 23:09 ` Iain Buchanan [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-09  4:37 Stephen Liu
2006-10-09  5:00 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-10-09 11:16 Stephen Liu
2006-10-09 13:37 ` Andrew Frink
2006-10-09 23:32   ` Iain Buchanan
2006-10-09 14:54 Stephen Liu
2006-10-10 11:16 Stephen Liu
2006-10-11  7:28 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-10-11 13:51 Stephen Liu
2006-10-11 23:20 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-10-12  2:24 Stephen Liu
2006-10-12  8:04 ` Neil Bothwick

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