2012/3/6 Tomás Solar Castro <[email protected]> > On 06/03/12 22:34, Satoshi Hayazaki wrote: > >> Hey, guys, I'm having issues with external storage devices that do not >> show up in filemanagers. I read the wiki page on automounting >> but it seems to be a different thing than what I need. Previously, in >> Xfce, I REALLY disliked automounting, so I would generally just insert >> the pendrive or whatever and it would show up, unmounted, in the >> filemanager's list of storage devices. >> >> When I wanted to access it I would click on it in the file managers and >> only then would the device be actually mounted. >> >> I find that in awesome the filemanager is oblivious to any changes to >> connected storage. >> >> I do not want automounting per se, I just want connected devices to show >> up, available to be mounted when I so wish, in filemanagers. >> >> I'm using Archlinux, awesome 3.4.11, and launching it via startx. The >> exact line in my .xinitrc is: "exec ck-launch-session awesome". >> The filemanagers I'm using are thunar and nautilus, both working as >> expected in xfce. My previous gentoo-powered awesome installation >> also had that behavior, so I'm sure it's not something xfce-specific. >> >> >> Any help or tips appreciated. >> > > I use udisks-glue. That's enough for automounting external disks. > just execute "udisks-glue &" in a terminal... > > Maybe there are some missing udev or group permissions...
I would like to avoid automounting since some of my frequent tasks involve partitioning and formatting external storage devices, so automounting would add another step (unmounting) to that process. I will try my hand at udisks-glue, however, since as it stands I have absolutely no access to external storage at all via the filemanager.
