automatic mounting of mass storage devices: light shed on the problem in it's true form after experimentation, consultation and study

[kwhiskers]

Thanks for your help. Yes, on my box it works like that, too. It all
works great! I was simply misunderstanding what automounting is.

When I put in a cd, a new instance of konqueror opens, already showing
me the contents of the directory of the cd, WITHOUT any clicking or
action on my part.

When I plug in removable media, however, this does not happen. This is
why I thought automounting was not occurring. I have to seek out the
removable media icon (on gnome, it will be dynamically created on the
desktop; on kde, it is located a couple of layers down in the sidebar
- I like my desktop clean and uncluttered, but having to click down a
few layers is not the best solution either) and then one has to click
on it to get the media mounted.

After having learned how this system works, I have come to the
conclusion that I DO find it acceptable. It was simply the different
treatment of cds and removable media that confused me.

As for your problem with not getting the second device mounted, have a
look at writing a udev rule. In my erroneous foray into trying to get
'automounting' to work, I learned about the beauty of udev rules. I am
certain this would solve the problem brilliantly.

On 10/27/05, Anil Kumar Sharma <xplusaks at gmail.com> wrote:
> First thing first, Auto mount USB device in FC4 is limited to craeting a
> mount point and providing an icon on desktop to manage the USB device
> through right click. This is my understanding for USB on FC4+KDE.
>  2. Please tell me if it work like this (for you); in case you have one USB
> device (camera/drive/anything) already mounted and you insert another
> device
> in any other free USB port. Does it auto mount second time?
>  3. In my experience, it does not work and the second device need be
> manually mounted after creating a mount point.
>  4. Strangely the second auto mount works for second device also, atleast
> on
> my FC4 box, if login is root (Which I generally do not do). This all under
> kde.
>  Thanks.
>
>
>  On 10/27/05, kwhiskers <kwhiskers at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks to all who have tried to help. I hope to consolidate the thread
> > here.
> >
> > I have partially solved the automounting of usb 'scsi' mass storage
> > cameras, which is done by hal. No udev rules are necessary. No device
> > definitions are required. It's all already there. fstab-sync takes care
> of
> > creating mount points. /dev/sda and sda1 both appear when the camera is
> > plugged in; the necessary kernel modules are automatically loaded.
> > Furthermore, it all works...
> >
> > If one is using gnome: plug in the camera and the filesystem on the
> > camera's memory chip will be automatically mounted to /media/usbdisk.
> >
> > The problem is how to get this to happen under kde. Under kde, one has to
> > manually mount the camera. Isn't there a way to make this behave under
> kde
> > the way it is supposed to?
> >
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