Hello,
I am also observing that USB stick working is not yet in full control as I would like to have.
I got two Pen drives (sticks) . One works exactly as expected but other doesn't. Recently I did some experimenting. Results are like this-
USB drive if it does not have a (volume) label, then manual mount command need not be given instead an icon appears on desktop (kde) after plugging in and 'open/mount/safely remove' is on right click menu. Manual mount command can be given in konsole in simplest form like # mount /dev/sdb (without label) or /dev/sdb1(with label).
So I have removed volume labels though I would like to have them.
If there is a better way please tell...
thanks
AKSharma
On 7/11/05, Ian Malone <ibm21@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Markku Kolkka <markkuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mike Noble kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai, 11.
> heinäkuuta 2005 00:51):
>> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>
>>> mount /media/KINGSTON
>>>
>>> I guess /etc/fstab has a related entry.
>>>
>>> Alexander
>
>>
>> That works, but why is it not mounted when it is installed?
> Your system isn't infested by an evil automount daemon. You can
> install one if you really want.
It's the default behaviour in FC3, and presumably FC4 as
well to auto mount USB sticks (the OP did say that another stick
showed exactly that behaviour). It's done via hald, fstab-sync
is responsible for creating the mount point and fstab entry (which
is clearly happening). I'm no hald expert, but it looks like
the device is falling into a category that isn't automounted.
A thread in May (Mount option hazardous to USB Flash!) prompted
me to play about a little with it, but I couldn't work out why
my rules didn't match the device, so in the end I basically
created one that over-rode the offending default rule.
The spec link at <http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal>
has more information if the OP wants to try and change the
behaviour. The key storage.policy.should_mount is a likely
candidate.
(sorry I can't be more helpful, but not at a Linux box atm)
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