On Monday 25 July 2005 11:42, Graham Smith wrote: > What I would like it something that will just automagically mount the > drive. I have installed the usbmount package (which I presume is the same > as usb-mount) but it doesn't seem to do anything. It's created /media/cdrom > and /media/usb directories but that is it - it doesn't mount the drive when > I plug it in. I am running KDE on Debian unstable and certain sites seem to > indicate that one can get KDE to create an icon on the desktop when a usb > drive is plugged in. > > Basically I'm interested to know what are my options are? > > Many thanks, > > Graham
pmount (not usbmount)
If you can mount this, then you'll be able to set this up. Google for
specifics (unless someone else elaborates for me).
Need: pmount hal udev hotplug usbutils (and, for gnome, gnome-volume-manager)
This should do it. Just make sure in KDE, [configure desktop?] settings are
enabled to display devices on the desktop. (If the drive doesn't show up in
media:/, then KDE isn't seeing the drive--and, something else is foobared.)
If you want the device to automatically be mounted to the same place every
time, then you need to:
1) Create a udev rule (google for 'udev rules')
in /etc/udev/rules.d/local.rules
It will look something like (one line):
BUS="scsi", KERNEL="sd?1", SYSFS{model}="Flash Disk", NAME="%k",
SYMLINK="usbkey"
--SYMLINK = its path in /dev/ (here, it's /dev/usbkey)
--If you use multiple devices, and want to distinguish between them, simply
add more details the the local.rules lines.
2) Create a directory in /media/
(I think usbmount does this, and pmount does this)
3) Create an fstab entry allowing users to mount/umount
(Unless you're using pmount; this breaks the pmount behaviour.)
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I did this in Debian, and don't remember all the steps. But, my setup was not
very flexible (or easy). So, I just moved my 4-year old Deb system to Ubuntu,
and usb drives just work. Ubuntu (actually, kubuntu-desktop, not
ubuntu-desktop--gnome) seems to use this working setup:
pmount hal udev hotplug usbutils
(though the depends mentions hal conflicts with pmount and
gnome-volume-manager, pmount and hal are both installed)
Maybe installing those will give you the seamless setup Ubuntu has. I think
part of my inflexible Debian setup included usbmount; maybe pmount is better.
For pmount (and, maybe usbmount), make sure your user is added to the group
'plugdev'. The only extra step I used was adding the line
to /etc/udev/rules.d/local.rules for the pamusb setup I use <pamusb.org>;
nothing seems to require configuration beyond installation.
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