2012/3/6 Tomás Solar Castro <[email protected]>
> On 06/03/12 23:16, Satoshi Hayazaki wrote: > >> >> >> 2012/3/6 Tomás Solar Castro <[email protected] <mailto: >> [email protected]>> >> >> >> On 06/03/12 22:34, Satoshi Hayazaki wrote: >> >> Hey, guys, I'm having issues with external storage devices that >> do not >> show up in filemanagers. I read the wiki page on automounting >> but it seems to be a different thing than what I need. >> Previously, in >> Xfce, I REALLY disliked automounting, so I would generally just >> insert >> the pendrive or whatever and it would show up, unmounted, in the >> filemanager's list of storage devices. >> >> When I wanted to access it I would click on it in the file >> managers and >> only then would the device be actually mounted. >> >> I find that in awesome the filemanager is oblivious to any >> changes to >> connected storage. >> >> I do not want automounting per se, I just want connected devices >> to show >> up, available to be mounted when I so wish, in filemanagers. >> >> I'm using Archlinux, awesome 3.4.11, and launching it via >> startx. The >> exact line in my .xinitrc is: "exec ck-launch-session awesome". >> The filemanagers I'm using are thunar and nautilus, both working as >> expected in xfce. My previous gentoo-powered awesome installation >> also had that behavior, so I'm sure it's not something >> xfce-specific. >> >> >> Any help or tips appreciated. >> >> >> I use udisks-glue. That's enough for automounting external disks. >> just execute "udisks-glue &" in a terminal... >> >> Maybe there are some missing udev or group permissions... >> >> >> I would like to avoid automounting since some of my frequent tasks >> involve partitioning and formatting external storage devices, >> so automounting would add another step (unmounting) to that process. I >> will try my hand at udisks-glue, however, since as it stands >> I have absolutely no access to external storage at all via the >> filemanager. >> > > udisks-glue gives me access to external storage from mc, thunar, pcmanfm, > nautilus... hope it works for you :) > > I tried udiskie and some udev rules as was recommend elsewhere. Besides the fact that I don't actually want automounting, they also had issues such as not allowing me to unmount via the filemanager, not automatically showing up in the filemanager (I have to close and open it again for it to show up as mounted), and not disappearing in the filemanager when unmounted. I have a feeling udisks-glue will work similarly to those two. They are mounting those devices but they are not really making the filemanager SEE that there are new devices inserted or removed. Probably just running "mount" automatically in the background, which is fine for the moment for me to at least have access to those devices, but not really an elegant solution for my use case.
