usb devices does not mount automatically

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Jun 1 14:45:36 UTC 2006


Loïc Martin wrote:

> My experience (Breezy and Dapper) has been that you don't have to mount
> usb volumes yourself, and don't even need them to be in /etc/fstab.

You certainly don't need (or usually want) them in /etc/fstab, and Gnome may
automatically mount usb devices (I use KDE which doesn't), but the big
change that has happened is the need for users of removable devices to be
in the plugdev group.

-- 
derek





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