[Gllug] Mounting removable media

[Rhys Powell]

- Tethys wrote:
> On 1/3/07, Jason Clifford <jason at ukfsn.org> wrote:
> 

> Sadly, in recent Fedora releases at least, the mount point is no
> longer created automatically, and nothing is added to /etc/fstab. The
> preferred solution seems to be to use some combination of
> gnome-volume-manager, gnome-mount, hald, dbus and who knows what else?
> So all I'm trying to do is get back to a point where I can easily
> mount removable media. Ideally, I'd be able to do it solely via udev,
> and indeed the udev FAQ even shows a crude way of doing it by volume
> label. But that requires knowing the volume label in advance. I'd like
> to have it sufficiently generic that I can plug in *any* card and have
> ti do the right thing. Even the udev FAQ tells me I should be using
> HAL :-(
> 
> I'm quite happy for those using the default desktop to have a nice
> integrated way of doing it that Just Works(tm). But I have a violent
> dislike for the way that the non-desktop parts of the operation have
> be arbitrarily tied to the desktop due to either laziness or
> incompetence on the part of the programmer.
> 
> What do the KDE folks do? I'm betting they don't use 
> gnome-volume-manager...
> 
> Tet

Latest version of fedora, running kde and it does Just Work. Currently, 
as I haven't yet got around to switching it off, it also does that 
annoying windows thing of asking me what I want to do with etc!!

Cheers

Rhys

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