On Monday 16 July 2007 19:51, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > vvmarko@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Under FC4 I would plug in the USB flash drive, and see in > > /var/log/messages that it is autodetected as /dev/sd*, and then the mount > > point /media/whatever being created and assigned to it. After that, I > > would just type > > > > $ mount /media/whatever > > > > (as an ordinary user, not root) to have the device mounted, if I wish. > > That was the default behavior in FC4, but not in FC6 or F7. Now I have to > > mkdir a mount point, su to root, then mount -t vfat /dev/sda /somewhere, > > chown the files to my username, and then use the device. Possible, but > > painful --- I got used to all that being automatic... :-( > > > > So, how do I get that behavior back? I want it to work for all devices I > > might plug in, including USB flash drives, CDs, DVDs, external HDs, etc. > > If you are logged into X, it should mount it as well, unless you > have auto-mounting turned off. From the command line, you can use > gnome-mount. (gnome-mount -d /dev/sda1) There are several ways to > tell gnome-mount what you want to mount. By default, it will create > the mount point in /media for you. You run gnome-mount as a normal user. Thanks for the reply, but no, no X on the machine. I'm in runlevel 3, X is started only when I really must use it, and even then it's just WindowMaker, not Gnome nor KDE. I believe I cannot use gnome-mount if Gnome is not running. And the functionality I miss here should work irrespective of desktop environment, I believe. Best, :-) Marko Marko Vojinovic Institute of Physics University of Belgrade ====================== e-mail: vmarko@xxxxxxxxxxxx
