What's the official best way to use an USB external disk?

Jose Gomez-Dans jgomezdans at gmail.com
Tue Sep 5 19:30:15 UTC 2006


Hi,


On 9/5/06, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
> Most stuff automounts here, but I have an external USB drive, with three
> partitions, which is recognised just fine, but does not automount the
> partitions. I've tried the usually fstab stuff, to force the issue, but
> have not been successful. udev needs much better docs and tools.

Exactly. The information is rather confusing. Some discussion is about
using autofs, some discussion mentions automount, and some other,
pmount-through-hal (or the other way around?). It is all very
confusing, and that's why I asked about the "official" best practice,
as I don't want to hack something that will break when a new Kubuntu
is released.

I have read that it is possible to control de behaviour of udev using
KDE, that it is seamlessly integrated. However, as far as I can tell,
the only actions which are easily configurable in this way is to open
a window when the device is inserted (and detected). What I would like
is to only mount the device when needed, without user interaction
(which is something autofs does, but it is not even installed here, so
I don't want to waste time on this if a more kubuntu-friendly way
exists).

Is there some ultimate way of achieving this?

Cheers,
Jose




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