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Registered: 2008-03-29

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Automatically mount flash drives in AwesomeWM

In Gnome when you put in a flash drive, it automatically mounts it in /media, and it's owned by me - so you can open a file on the flash drive in a file manager, the file isn't read only.  Is there anyway to do this in AwesomeWM?

FALK

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-03-24

Posts: 95

Re: Automatically mount flash drives in AwesomeWM

Have a look at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL

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Registered: 2008-03-29

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Re: Automatically mount flash drives in AwesomeWM

Thanks, but where should I put all of the <device> blocks?  I tried putting them in the /etc/hal/... file, but that didn't do anything.

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Registered: 2008-03-29

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Re: Automatically mount flash drives in AwesomeWM

Bump. 

Even if I could just mount it manually then chown the mount point that would be fine, but I can't even chown it as root.

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: Automatically mount flash drives in AwesomeWM

You could just run thunar as a daemon and use it's volume management system.

pacman -Sy thunar thunar-volman

Start it with:

thunar --daemon

It will automatically mount removable drives.

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