On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 05:56:34PM +0000, Stroller wrote > I'm assuming, then, that you're happy opening a terminal and typing > `mkdir /mnt/diskname` and mounting the device every time you plug a > new disk in? Wouldn't it just be nice to plug in your USB devices - > hard-drives and flash drives - and have them magically appear on > the desktop like they do on every other desktop operating system?
...and auto-execute an INI file that loads a virus, or Sony rootkit? No thanks. BTW, even with mdev, a bunch of stuff gets spit out to /var/log/messages. The last line was... Mar 14 20:17:42 localhost kernel: [512417.398747] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk This is probably what userspace automounters work with (directly or indirectly). -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
