Ok, I tried it on Jessie, and it works essentially the same way, with a few slight differences:
* when the USB stick shows up in dolphin, it does not show the mount point, instead it says something like "Removable 8MiB device" * if I then go to a CLI and look under media, I find the device listed as follows, and can access the files: e.g., ls /media/<myuserid>/84BE-2329. I don't know where the "84BE-2329" comes from, but it seems to be associated with the USB stick, as it is the same on both machines. On Sunday, November 20, 2016 09:38:21 AM [email protected] wrote: > I'll answer with something a little bit like Joe's answer. On my daily > working machine, which uses Wheezy, I use Dophin as a file manager. > > After I plug in a USB stick, after a few seconds (maybe up to 20??), a new > entry appears on the left hand list of partitions in Dolphin. If I click > on that, the files are displayed in the (current working) pane of Dolphin, > and I can use the mouse to drag and drop them, open them, or similar. > > The top of that dophin pane shows where the device is mounted, for example, > /media/84BE-2329/. > > If I then go to a CLI and refer to that mountpoint, I can access the files. > > To anticipate an answer to your potential next question, there is no > pmount.allow file on this computer. > > I may try the same thing on my future daily working machine, using Jessie > (and, iiuc, systemd or whatever it is called). If I try that, I'll let you > know. > > On Sunday, November 20, 2016 08:58:04 AM Joe wrote: > > There *is* a generic answer, which requires no fstab entry, but I have > > to admit that I haven't a clue what it is. > > > > I'm running sid with systemd, with absolutely nothing in /etc/fstab > > which refers to USB sticks, but nonetheless any USB stick inserted is > > recognised and automounted under /media/joe (maybe immediately and maybe > > on access, I'm not sure, but it shows instantly in file managers) with > > everything in a FAT partition having ownership of joe:me and > > permissions of 644. Ext partitions have their own permissions, as > > expected. > > > > This all Just Works, and I have no idea what configuration it depends > > on. "I didn't build this," sid basically builds and rebuilds itself, so > > I tend to keep my fingers out of the works. I do know that USB sticks > > were a real pain with usbmount, which *sometimes* mounted the entire > > device instead of the partitions, and at some point, things just > > started working better. > > > > There is nothing in /etc/polkit-1, /etc/udev or /etc/udisks2 referring > > to USB sticks, which are the most likely suspects as far as I can see. > > Presumably the culprit is systemd, as usual, so possibly someone more > > knowledgable about this beast can finish my part-answer.
