gnome-volume-manager (running in the background) takes care of that. It listens for devices being plugged (with udev I think) in and mounts them. You can start it yourself from the command line (if you're using a different window manager than gnome), or have gnome start it for you.
<br><br>On a side note, if you would like to mount drives manually as a normal user, and not use sudo, you would use pmount/pumount<br><br># pmount /dev/sda1 <br>or sth<br><br>-- Henk Postma<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 5/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chuang Wu</b> <<a href="mailto:chuangwoo@gmail.com">chuangwoo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi there,<br><br>What software does Ubuntu use to auto mount cdrom, usb external harddisk?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>--<br>ubuntu-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
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