On Wednesday 27 June 2007 00:18:30 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > John Bowden wrote: > > Hi list > > Fresh install of F7. I just plugged in two different USB external hard > > rives and none of them were auto mounted. Both drives are IDE drives in > > external USB enclosures. One is a laptop drive and the enclosure gets its > > power from the USB socket, the other is standard size drive and the > > enclosure has its own power supply. Any ideas? > > This is determined by > /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives. >fdi. You can either edit it or just move it out of that location and auto > mounting would work. > > It has been done as a security measure but policy kit in Fedora 8 should > make this much more usable. There is a recent discussion in fedora-devel > list about this FYI. > > Rahul Hi Rahul. Thanks for the info. I had a dig around and found the file mentioned above. Do I edit the line <match key="block.storage-device:storage.removable"bool="false" To "true"? I have an 80Gb external drive full up with backed up stuff that I need to get onto my new F7 box, before I upgrade my FC6 box -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240
