Can a USB Device link appear on Desktop when mounted?

Phill Whiteside PhillW at Ubuntu.com
Sat Nov 10 02:20:37 UTC 2012


Hi Aere,

having a USB device plugged in at boot time opens a whole new can of
worms....

The boot order is set in BIOS, ensure that the usb device is lower than
what disk you wish to boot off. My system has BIOS to boot off usb and
dvd/cd rom drive before it even looks at the hard drives.

PcManFM will auto mount an USB device, but I do think it is a case of
checking closely your boot order in the BIOS start up screen.

Regards,

Phill.

On 10 November 2012 02:07, Aere Greenway <Aere at dvorak-keyboards.com> wrote:

> **
> All:
>
> I think the problem being referred-to here, is when the USB device is
> already plugged-in when the system is booted.
>
> Of course, you could un-plug it, and re-plug it in, but I am very
> apprehensive about unplugging USB mass storage devices without being
> absolutely sure it isn't mounted.
>
> - Aere
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From*: Phill Whiteside <PhillW at Ubuntu.com<Phill%20Whiteside%20%3cPhillW at Ubuntu.com%3e>
> >
> *To*: Mr Wislr <contact at unleashpc.com<Mr%20Wislr%20%3ccontact at unleashpc.com%3e>
> >
> *Cc*: lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> *Subject*: Re: Can a USB Device link appear on Desktop when mounted?
> *Date*: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:43:18 +0000
>
> Sorry, I did not fully read...
>
> 1. Plug in USB device 2. Allow PCManFM to mount it. 3. The device will
> appear on the PCManFM listing on the panel to the left.
>
> the USB will be mounted at..
>
> /media
>
> under the user name.
>
> e.g. I'm phillw, and my USB (DANE-ELEC) device can be found via:
>
> cd /media
>
> followed by
>
> phillw at piglet:/media$ ls
>
> which will give the listing as per below (it will be your user name)
>
> cdrom  phillw
>
> You can then cd into your user name area...
>
> phillw at piglet:/media/phillw$ ls -l total 20 drwx------ 14 phillw phillw
> 20480 Jan  1  1970 DANE-ELEC
>
> at which point you will see the name of your USB (DANE-ELEC) in my case.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
> On 10 November 2012 00:05, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Indeed,
>
>
>
>  when a USB device is plugged in, a window will appear to ask if you want
> it mounting via 'File Manager'. Just accept the top option and the device
> will appear on PCManFM in the left hand pane.
>
>
>
>  Regards,
>
>
>
>  Phill.
>
>  On 9 November 2012 23:50, Mr Wislr <contact at unleashpc.com> wrote:
>
>   On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:36:59 -0700
> not sure about automount to the desktop but it should appear in the
> left hand column of pcmanfm (when you open any folder) it should be
> listed there, you shouldn't have to manually go to /media
>
>
>
> Lee Gold <leegold at operamail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Using Lubuntu 12.04. When I insert a USB drive it does automatically
> > mount and I go to /media to find it. But is there a way to also have a
> > link to it appear automatically on the desktop to? This is a
> > convienience on some other OS's and wondered if Lubuntu will do this?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
>
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