Am Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:31:07 -0200 schrieb luis jure <l...@internet.com.uy>:
> hello list, Hi, > 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. It seems that for Xfce you want the Thunar Volume Manager plugin (xfce-extra/thunar-volman): http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/thunar-plugins/thunar-volman Otherwise, I know of three modern (i.e. udev or udisks based) desktop independent ways for auto-mounting: - uam A udev based auto-mounter. It doesn't mount CD/DVD/etc. drives (because, well, it's udev-based), but otherwise worked flawlessly on my machine. - udiskie A udisks based auto-mounter, doesn't work properly for me, i.e. one of my USB sticks wouldn't mount, apparently because udisks flagged it as non-automountable. - udisks-glue A udisks based tool that can execute arbitrary commands on udisks events, e.g. auto-mount disks. (My personal preference is currently udisks-glue.) HTH -- Marc Joliet
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