From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Pt9YZ-0007lC-7a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:06:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DD881C055 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:06:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2628DE055D for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 01:42:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyd10 with SMTP id 10so1471612gyd.40 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:42:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=N2+95VgGAIXBvm2c8e9OPz5homAM8H8Oz5xYoDPuZ/U=; b=xKyQWFYuG7lyXeBtZh2ENIc13OgGdELax64qutwu/UJZlHw4MIeMpFx2khttLe+HUZ b2HqkbZI8EVhC+wiEhdi59Vhqc6z/THc7AYwo3lbqG+RTQ9MpSvS4RTq0UYcujhb5zrK RMWREedQ5bF5RHdoLxoCec/cDtgaXdTtC82FE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=OZjrrqpo8quGK6dTISYQOoUrcVeCCLyRGhvYskOb2O5PXcU5fnEvArLsF32lvSKmHT jWDGIFC5ppfuyj/xA6nu1mngThIAJZAmLS8eZNNT334FZawomdgnMMtzLv76ju/gv7Le iXNOP2QW0JXViLdmXnwZxttyrS+S0GlI12JrA= Received: by 10.91.73.37 with SMTP id a37mr4545952agl.179.1298684567443; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:42:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-94-193.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.94.193]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w4sm1562568anw.16.2011.02.25.17.42.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:42:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D685A94.9020002@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:42:44 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110217 Gentoo/2.0.11 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] automounting usb drives References: <20110225233107.04405a5b@acme7.acmenet> In-Reply-To: <20110225233107.04405a5b@acme7.acmenet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 48ff7c54935e79f0838fe4a238903f64 luis jure wrote: > > hello list, > > i'm old-fashioned and i never cared for this automount thing, but now i > have two pen drives and two usb hard disks that i have to mount and umount > all the time, and doing it by hand every time is beginning to be very > annoying... > > i see that distributions like ubuntu and others have this feature by > default: you plug in a pen drive and it creates a mount point under /media > and mounts the device there. but i have no idea to get something like that > working on my gentoo machine. i searched the web, but the documents i > found on the subject are somewhat contradictory and all of them too old > for comfort. > > any hints about a standard "gentoo way" to achieve this? > > by the way, i use xfce, so i can't use tools specific for kde or gnome, if > they exist. > > best, > > lj > > I know what xfce is but not have no experience with it. Would this help? [I] sys-fs/udisks Available versions: 1.0.1-r1!t{tbz2} 1.0.2!t{tbz2} {bash-completion debug doc nls remote-access} Installed versions: 1.0.2!t{tbz2}(18:36:11 02/25/11)(nls -bash-completion -debug -doc -remote-access) Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/udisks Description: Daemon providing interfaces to work with storage devices * xfce-extra/xfce4-mount-plugin Available versions: 0.5.5 {debug} Homepage: http://www.xfce.org/ Description: Mount plugin for the Xfce panel That last one should put you on the right path for sure. Hope the helps. Dale :-) :-)