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civ247

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Registered: 2005-08-05

Posts: 53

Automatically mouhn tpendrive - Gnome

How can i set up gnome to automatically mount my usb pen drives with an icon on the desktop like with Fedora or ubuntu? How easy/difficult is it?

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: Automatically mouhn tpendrive - Gnome

You can use gnome-volume-manager to do this, but you must have mount points setup in fstab first.

If you have a usb drive connected at /dev/sda1 you can add that to fstab and then gnome-volume-manager should do the rest.

  /dev/sda1   /mnt/usbpen  vfat   defaults,noauto,sync  0   0

keevn7

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From: Lancaster, OH, US

Registered: 2005-06-09

Posts: 206

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Re: Automatically mouhn tpendrive - Gnome

You can use gnome-volume-manager to do this, but you must have mount points setup in fstab first.

In my experiences, gnome-volume-manager will automatically make a mount point in /media for devices not defined in /etc/fstab. Ivman does that as well, and deletes it once you unplug the device.

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phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: Automatically mouhn tpendrive - Gnome

for the record, you can do this directly in udev without the need for anything except a simple bash script

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demonus

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Registered: 2005-01-31

Posts: 62

Re: Automatically mouhn tpendrive - Gnome

gnome-volume-manager does the job, unless you try eject a CD. gvm seems to ignore this and does not unmount the volume. however as long as you use simple usb stick/thumbdrives/pendrives it's ok, but you should add sync /etc/fstab options to prevent data loss