On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 05:17:33AM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote, on 2009-03-02 01:25: >> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:56:12PM +0100, Robert Latest wrote: >>> Hello people, >>> >>> the subject says it all. I (often, but not always) have a portable USB >>> disk connected to the computer that I would like to have automounted >>> on boot. I could just knit some init script for this task, but before >>> I do that I'd like to check if there is a "canonical Debian way" to >>> achieve it. >> >> I do not know if it is "canonical Debian way" or not ... but there are >> few ways. >> >> Do you use modern desktop? Gnome, KDE, ... then it automounts. >> >> If non X system, just add it to /etc/fstab >> >> Osamu > > It didn't work for me in KDE 3.5.10 (running Debian unstable here). I > might have the wrong packages installed.
I see. Did you label drive when formatting it. I use gnome. KDE should do the same... > What I did was identify the 2 usbdrives I own and set up mount points > for them and put the following in /etc/fstab: ... These are very good but a bit overkill... http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch11.en.html#removablemassstoragedevice This is how ... KDE may require user to be part of plugdev group or so Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org