Re: How to mount a external USB drive automatically

2013-05-09 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/09/2013 02:31 PM, Steven Stern wrote: F18, XFCE, mount removable media is checked. When I plugin my external HD, it shows up on the desktop, unmounted. Further searching of the forum shows this: http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=7149 However, my desktop's version of /usr/share/p

Re: How to mount a external USB drive automatically

2013-05-09 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/09/2013 02:31 PM, Steven Stern wrote: F18, XFCE, mount removable media is checked. When I plugin my external HD, it shows up on the desktop, unmounted. I've been doing a little searching at the Xfce support forum. One suggestion was to make sure that thunar was running as a daemon. If

Re: How to mount a external USB drive automatically

2013-05-09 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/09/2013 03:03 PM, Anthony wrote: Hmm, very odd. I looked in /etc/fstab and it's just mounting my main, internal drive. No mention of the external drive. External devices don't need to be in /etc/fstab to get mounted. If they did, most people would never be able to mount a flash drive, C

Re: How to mount a external USB drive automatically

2013-05-09 Thread Anthony
On 05/09/2013 02:27 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 03:53:07PM -0500, Anthony wrote: >> I have an external USB drive that is always connected to my computer. >> When I log in, it shows up on my desktop (unmounted) and all I have to >> do is click on it to mount it. It mounts to

Re: How to mount a external USB drive automatically

2013-05-09 Thread Steven Stern
On 05/09/2013 04:21 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/09/2013 01:51 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> >> F17, XFCE as well. On my systems, an icon appears on the desktop when >> the media is inserted--but it is NOT mounted. > > Have you checked to see if you've set Removable Media to automount? If > so, it's

Re: How to mount a external USB drive automatically

2013-05-09 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/09/2013 01:51 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: F17, XFCE as well. On my systems, an icon appears on the desktop when the media is inserted--but it is NOT mounted. Have you checked to see if you've set Removable Media to automount? If so, it's not just me, and I may be opening a bug report with

Re: How to mount a external USB drive automatically

2013-05-09 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/09/2013 12:40 PM, Joe Zeff issued this missive: On 05/09/2013 12:27 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: I have never known a usb drive to show up on the desktop without being mounted. Have you looked in /etc/mtab? If so, what does it show? If not, how do you know the drive isn't mounted? I'm runn

Re: How to mount a external USB drive automatically

2013-05-09 Thread Jack Craig
just by way of a WAG, my usb thumb drive began auto mounting on insert once i labelled the file system on it... YMMV, ... On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 03:53:07PM -0500, Anthony wrote: > > I have an external USB drive that is always connected

Re: How to mount a external USB drive automatically

2013-05-09 Thread Grzegorz Witkowski
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Anthony wrote: > I have an external USB drive that is always connected to my computer. > When I log in, it shows up on my desktop (unmounted) and all I have to > do is click on it to mount it. It mounts to > > /run/media/anthony/Storage > > But I want to have it mo

Re: How to mount a external USB drive automatically

2013-05-09 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/09/2013 12:27 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: I have never known a usb drive to show up on the desktop without being mounted. Have you looked in /etc/mtab? If so, what does it show? If not, how do you know the drive isn't mounted? I'm running F 17 with Xfce, on two computers and on both, I've

Re: How to mount a external USB drive automatically

2013-05-09 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 03:53:07PM -0500, Anthony wrote: > I have an external USB drive that is always connected to my computer. > When I log in, it shows up on my desktop (unmounted) and all I have to > do is click on it to mount it. It mounts to > > /run/media/anthony/Storage > > But I want to

How to mount a external USB drive automatically

2013-05-08 Thread Anthony
I have an external USB drive that is always connected to my computer. When I log in, it shows up on my desktop (unmounted) and all I have to do is click on it to mount it. It mounts to /run/media/anthony/Storage But I want to have it mount automatically for both me (the system admin) and any othe