On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 17:36:19 +0000 Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon 21 Nov 2016 at 18:18:27 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 04:37:50PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > I cannot recollect or find any mention of the OP wanting to > > > automount. > > > > Not explicitly, sure. The point is, it was implicitly expected, > > because for the OP, it's the "normal" thing. It Just Happens. > > I have no idea what the OP's "normal" thing is when it comes to using > his computer. My expections (correct or not) are usually based on what > is said. > > > This sort of thing is what I meant by "recalibrating our > > expectations": we are better able to help when we are better able > > to put ourselves in the questioner's position. > > Someone deduced "He wants auto-mounting of the inserted media". The > evidence isn't there. Putting one's self in the a user's position is > one thing; putting words into his mouth is another. > The requirement was for a non-root user to mount an arbitrary FAT-formatted USB stick partition read-write in a predictable place. One way of achieving this is to monitor /var/log/syslog while plugging the drive in, observe how the OS identifies the drive, and use this information to construct a mount statement to be typed into a command window as root. Or, since exactly the same procedure is necessary each time, it could be done by a computer. The computer which the drive had just been plugged into would be a good choice. Plug in a drive and a large button appears on the screen, marked 'Mount the drive you just plugged in'. While this does not actually constitute automounting, I suggest that it differs by a single mouse click. And actually, I didn't deduce that automounting was what the OP wanted, I said that it was what *I* had working. The point was to demonstrate that software existed to do the job the OP wanted done, even if I didn't see quite what software that was. -- Joe
