Hi Iain, Tks for your advice.
> 2. add yourself to the plugdev group > 3. remove any lines in /etc/fstab for the same device you want to > automount # nano /etc/group adding "satimis" on; plugdev:x:1004:haldaemon;satimis (remark:- also tried "plugdev:x:1004:haldaemon,satimis") # cat /etc/fstab shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 /dev/hda2 / ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 1 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw,nogrpid 0 2 /dev/vg/usr /usr ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 3 /dev/vg/home /home ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 4 /dev/vg/var /var ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 5 /dev/vg/opt /opt ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 6 /dev/vg/tmp /tmp ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 7 none /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0 udev /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0 * end * USB enclosure still could not be mounted automatically on plugging in B.R. satimis -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list