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CD/DVD/USB and mounting...



Which distro and window manager are you using?  I recently switched to  
Gentoo and noticed they've made a push for mounting via ivman/pmount  
for userspace mounting.  This is in constrast to Gnome's own internal  
device management layer 'gnome-volume-manager'.  I don't know if KDE  
does anything special for mounting.

-Danny

Quoting Scott Ehrlich <scott-DPNOqEs/LNQ at public.gmane.org>:

> I insert a CD, DVD, or USB stick into a system.   It doesn't mount.   I
> use the window manager to visit my Computer and double-click the device
> (CD or USB drive).   Suddenly, the device mounts.
>
> What process is permitting that to happen?   I tried some googling, but
> can't seem to capture the right words or contexts for appropriate hits.
> I thought it might be autofs - I tried to stop/start it, but it didn't
> do anything.
>
> It would obviously be nice to know for init 3 (or simply non X)
> sessions when I insert media and want to access it.   I don't want to
> have to visit /var/log/messages each time, either, unless that's the
> only way to do it, to see the device it is seen as and mount it.   If
> that's the only way, then so be it.
>
> Thanks for your answers/insights.
>
> Scott
>
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