How to force udev to mount a device if present
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Thu Dec 14 04:37:51 UTC 2006
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>> Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>>> I have a USB hard drive semi-permanently attached to my system. How can
>>> I set things up (probably a udev rule) to mount the drive, if present,
>>> when the system boots up?
>
> On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 14:15 +1100, David Timms wrote:
>> Is it not already mounted under /media/{vol or disk name} ?
>> My usb flash disk does this if either a leave it plugged in and boot or
>> if I plug it in.
>>
>> Do you want it to mount in a specific other place ?
>
> Nope. The device node /dev/sda1 is created and appears on the KDE
> desktop, but it's not mounted anywhere. I don't care very much where
> it's mounted though it would be nice to be able to control this.
>
> Thanks - jon
>
You can configure both KDE and Gnome to auto-mount USB drives, CDs
DVDs, and other removable media. For Gnome, it is
gnome-volume-properties.
Mikkel
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