[GRLUG] auto mount

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:05:04PM -0500, Topher wrote:
> There's a feature that Gnome has that I want outside of gnome.  When you 
> plug in a USB drive or something, some part of gnome notices, and mounts 
> it.
> 
> I want that, but I don't use gnome.  I'm quite comfortable finding the 
> id's of my devices and mounting by hand, and most of my common ones I put 
> in fstab, so it's not all that bad to just do mount -a and it takes care 
> of it.
> 
> But it seems like if Gnome can do it, there should be something that can 
> do it at the system level as well.
> 
> Anyone know how that might work, and whether it's already out there?

You mean like this?  http://packages.debian.org/lenny/autofs
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