I got my first USB pen drive, a 256Mb SanDisk Cruzer Mini. After googlin' a bit, I finally ran into a rather old post where it said that the flash drive should be automagically detected / mounted, and if it wasn't the case, then the trick was to add the "VENDOR ID" (as reported by dmesg) in /etc/updfstab.conf into the "flash" section, and run updfstab afterwards. Oh! Tricky ;) But it worked :) Now, the question is: Should I report the 'new' vendor id? Where? To whom? My updfstab.conf.default had only 10 entries (now it has 11). I suspect there must be *many* more vendors out there...