Kubuntu, USB drives and magic mounting.

[Nils Kassube]

Donn wrote:
> 1. Can anyone tell me what the command-line steps would be to mount a
> USB drive that has *just been plugged in*. I don't mean mount
> /dev/sdd1 /media/blah, Why? Well, I don't want to:
> a) Make the blah directory manually -- I want it to appear magically
> with a name like "300 Maxtor" (like it does when KDE mounts it, or
> used-to). b) I don't want to have to dmesg | tail and look for the
> /dev/ the drive is assigned. (Well, I don't mind this if it's the
> only way)

I would have suggested pmount but that doesn't work here any longer for 
some unknown reason.

> 2. Can anyone help me troubleshoot the "Device notifier" widget?
> Perhaps I stopped some service it depends on. Dunno.

Did you logout and login again? That should restore the device notifier.


Nils