Re: [F7] Automatic adding of mount points

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On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 20:19 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2007 17:06, Mark Haney 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... :-(
> >
> > I had this problem (or a similar one) recently and my problem was udevd
> > had stopped/crashed/wasn't running.
> 
> Thanks for the tip, I'll look into it. But as far as I can see, udevd is not 
> listed under services, nor is running by default (this was a clean install of 
> F7). But anyway, tommorow I'll find some time to read the man page.

/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit calls /sbin/start_udev which starts udevd.
It runs in all run levels.

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