On 17 November 2011 09:07, Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.bela...@st.com> wrote: > When I need to mount a removable USB device on LXDE (~amd64) I currently > manually issue the mount command. What do I need to do to make > automounting possible? > > According to LXDE wiki (1) you need HAL, which I don't have on my > system. I found several suggestions on the net but none seems promising. > Any hints to point me in the right direction? > > raffaele > > (1) > http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXDE:Questions#Does_LXDE_automount_plugged_in_removable_devices_.28USB_drives.2C_Flash_disks.2C_etc.29.3F
udev can do it - here's an Arch guide which is probably helpful: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev#Auto_mounting_USB_devices Personally, I use pmount, which allows plugdev-users to mount without sudo. gentoo-wiki has an article on "AutoFS", but I've no idea about that.