How to force udev to mount a device if present

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

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 ?

>> Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > 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.

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 22:37 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 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.

How is this configuration done?  And does it have effect after the
system boots but before the desktop is started?  gnome-volume-properties
indicates that the system should "Mount removable drives when hot
plugged." and under KDE the "Properties" popup for the drive indicates
"Mount automatically".  But the drive is not mounted till I click
"Mount" in the popup for the drive.  I suspect that part of the problem
is that the drive is already plugged into the system when it starts.

Thanks - jon