On Monday, November 21, 2016 09:11:21 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 08:34:42AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 01:26:45PM +0000, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> > 1) He wants auto-mounting of the inserted media, in the manner of > > Microsoft > > > > Windows. I don't know how he expects to handle unmounting. <snip> > > 2) Apparently many Linux desktop environments offer this service, > > although > > > > nobody currently responding to this thread knows how they do this. > > It's voodoo. > > Well: udisks was mentioned, and also pmount. Slowly we're getting the > pieces together. But you're right: DEs are (from my POV) horribly > inscrutable. That's one of the reasons I avoid them. Just adding some information to what I mentioned in an earlier post: On my Wheezy machine, apparently udisks handles the mounting and unmounting of USB sticks (and maybe a lot more--running =udisks --dump= provides information on all my disks, including some health information from SMART. As far as unmounting, if I right click on the device in the left hand pane / column of dolphin, the context menu gives me an option to "Safely remove "... Removable Media"'. On my Jessie system, neither pmount nor udisks is installed, but udisks2 apparently is, and I suspect it is what provides that functionality on Jessie. There does not seem to be a =udisks2 --dump= function. Also, there is not an option to "Safely remove "... Removable Media"' when right clicking on the device in dolphin. I try to make it a practice to run sync twice (and wait for it to return) before removing the pendrive.
