auto-mounting of removable media

[Svend Sorensen]

Ubuntu relies on gnome-volume-manager to listen for HAL events, and
automounts based on those.

On Apr 2, 2005 5:45 PM, Matt Price <matt.price at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> [the below didn't show up after several hours.  apologies if it
> double-posts]
> 
> hey there,
> 
> can someone explain to me how ubuntu manages the automatic mounting of
> removable devices like usb flash drives, cameras, pdas, etc?  I am
> trying to get udev working on a vanilla debian sid install and would like
> to have automounting set up -- ubuntu seems to do this beautifully,
> but I don't have a working system on hand right now.
> 
> Even better would be to have a slightly mor complex scripte -- e.g.,
> when my cmaera is loaded and recognized, it not only automatically
> mounts on /mnt/camera but also calls some script that maybe copies any
> new photos to a partiular directory or something.
> 
> So if you could point me to some docs that'd be great too!
> 
> thanks,
> 
> matt
> 
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