Automatically mounting USB flash disks/ USB thumb drives

[Didier Casse]

On 11/08/04, at 09:45 +0100, Andy Green <fedora at warmcat.com> wrote:

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> On Wednesday 11 August 2004 09:28, Didier Casse wrote:
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> > I'll try to update my hotplug. I'm using the Enlightenment Window Manager.
> > Could that be a problem?
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> Probably not, but you can easily check.  Open a console window and type
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> kfmclient openURL ~
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> If enough of KDE is around, you should get a Konqueror window on your home
> directory.  That's basically what the hotplug script is trying to do.

Yeps this one works!

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> Also worth testing, when the USB stick is plugged in, you should be able to
> see the memory stick contents automounted at /mnt/usbaudioplayer while it is
> plugged in: have a look by hand.  If that is there, the automount action is
> working fine, there is no need to umount the flash drive, just wait 3 seconds
> after the last access and pull it out.
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No automount action! Will try updating stuff. Thanks for the reply.

With kind regards,

Didier.

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