On Nov 17, 2011 4:51 PM, "James Broadhead" <jamesbroadh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 17 November 2011 09:07, Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.bela...@st.com> wrote: > > When I need to mount a removable USB device on LXDE (~amd64) I currently > > manually issue the mount command. What do I need to do to make > > automounting possible? > > > > According to LXDE wiki (1) you need HAL, which I don't have on my > > system. I found several suggestions on the net but none seems promising. > > Any hints to point me in the right direction? > > > > raffaele > > > > (1) > > http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXDE:Questions#Does_LXDE_automount_plugged_in_removable_devices_.28USB_drives.2C_Flash_disks.2C_etc.29.3F > > udev can do it - here's an Arch guide which is probably helpful: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev#Auto_mounting_USB_devices > > Personally, I use pmount, which allows plugdev-users to mount without sudo. > > gentoo-wiki has an article on "AutoFS", but I've no idea about that. >
What about mdev? Can it do that too? Rgds,
