----- Original Message ----- > From: "kpb" <k...@sohcahtoa.org.uk> > Rob Owens <row...@ptd.net> wrote: >> >> Before I stopped using Jessie, I had USB mounting working >> with the spacefm file manager and either udevil or pmount to >> handle the removable devices. Let me know if anybody wants >> instruction on that. >> >> -Rob > > Hello Rob > > I'd appreciate an outline of the way you got pmount to talk to your file > manager > if you have your notes written up already and it is not too onerous.
I'm not on a Jessie system now, but I have access to its config files. So some of this is from memory: Spacefm has the ability to use several different methods to mount removable media. If you install either pmount or udevil, it can use them. By default, I believe it automatically chooses which method it wants to use, based on what you have installed. If you want to force it to use pmount, go to Spacefm's Devices menu, Settings, Device Handlers. Click on the Default device handler, and uncomment the pmount lines in the Mount and Unmount sections. pmount and udevil have their own differing conventions for where to mount the removable media. For udevil, at least, that can be configured (allowed_media_dirs in udevil.conf). On Jessie, I have noticed that some applications don't properly detect the mounted removable media if it's mounted this way. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774871 By the way, I just discovered there is something called pmount-gui, which is not available in Debian. It provides a very basic gui for pmount. In my quick testing, I was able to mount a usb stick, but I see no option to unmount. -Rob _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
