auto-mounting USB drives

[Mario Vukelic]

On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 14:03 +0000, pkaplan1 at comcast.net wrote:

> Here's the relevant lines from /etc/fstab
> 
> /dev/sdb1 /media/hd1 vfat uid=1000,gid=1000,auto,rw,user 0 0
> /dev/sdb2 /media/hd2 ext3 user,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
> /dev/sdb3 /media/hd3 ext3 user,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0

And that's the problem. USB mass devices should not be managed by adding
entries in /etc/fstab. They are managed with udev/hal/pmount and can be
configured in menu System > Preferences > Removable Drives and Media.
(Access management via System > Administration > Users and Groups).

There are probably also conffiles in /etc/ for details, but I never had
a need, so can't comment.