On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 05:56:34PM +0000, Stroller wrote

> I'm assuming, then, that you're happy opening a terminal and typing
> `mkdir /mnt/diskname` and mounting the device every time you plug a
> new disk in? Wouldn't it just be nice to plug in your USB devices -
> hard-drives and flash drives - and have them magically appear on
> the desktop like they do on every other desktop operating system?

...and auto-execute an INI file that loads a virus, or Sony rootkit?  No
thanks.  BTW, even with mdev, a bunch of stuff gets spit out to
/var/log/messages.  The last line was...
Mar 14 20:17:42 localhost kernel: [512417.398747] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached 
SCSI removable disk

  This is probably what userspace automounters work with (directly or
indirectly).

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>

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