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Barghest

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From: Hanau/Germany

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 563

automounting my usb-drive doesn't work

Hi,

I'd like mount my usb-drives automatically but I don't get it to work. I already did both steps written in the HAL wiki article but I always have to open thunar and click on the usb drive to mount it. It's a little annoying to do this before I can use unison or coreutils.

Any advice?

THX!

Barghest

P.S.: My WM is awesome

Last edited by Barghest (2010-02-24 16:08:18)

kowalski

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Registered: 2009-05-07

Posts: 82

Re: automounting my usb-drive doesn't work

Hi,

any chance this might caused by something as described here?
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#Mounting_fails

Edit: Note to self: Read posts twice. You were refering to automounting not mounting in general. Pardon me

Last edited by kowalski (2010-02-12 14:17:39)

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thestinger

Package Maintainer (PM)

From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 478

Re: automounting my usb-drive doesn't work

what groups is your user in?

I had to add myself to hal and dbus to get automounting to work

[thestinger@arch X11]$ groups
disk lp wheel dbus hal network video audio optical storage power users wireshark

Last edited by thestinger (2010-02-12 17:45:39)

xduugu

Member

Registered: 2008-10-16

Posts: 292

Re: automounting my usb-drive doesn't work

If you don't insist on hal, you could try an udev-rule: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 39#p696239

Barghest

Member

From: Hanau/Germany

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 563

Re: automounting my usb-drive doesn't work

Thanks,

the udev-rule works.

Last edited by Barghest (2010-02-24 09:00:08)

Barghest

Member

From: Hanau/Germany

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 563

Re: automounting my usb-drive doesn't work

Hm, it seems that it was only partly solved.

Now the flash drive is mounted automatically but there's something wrong with the permissions. E.g. I can't use unison anymore because it tells me about missing permissions

I also can't generate new files/folders on the drives "root"

Any ideas?

Last edited by Barghest (2010-02-24 16:32:29)

Mega-G33k

Member

From: Indiana, USA

Registered: 2009-09-14

Posts: 42

Re: automounting my usb-drive doesn't work

I have the exact same problem, I'm working around it by opening Thunar as Root and copying the files I need, but I would very much like to be able to copy files as a regular user.

Last edited by Mega-G33k (2010-02-24 16:30:51)