automount_drives

Ross Group Inc rossco at videotron.ca
Tue Sep 8 16:24:22 UTC 2009


Hello,
I'm trying to set FreeBSD 8.0 with Gnome as my production OS.
Currently I have problem with automounting: almost all my drives and
partitions
appear on Desktop.
Only usb sticks and fat32 storage partition are not mounted (on 8.0) but
they are 
exactly those I need to be automounted:)
BTW another fat32 storage partition from slave HDD appears
automounted...

I read Gnome FAQ and hal FAQ, I googled and found some solution for
linux that
doesn't work on FreeBSD.
I know that I can edit fstab to exclude partitions from automounting and
I also can
edit/create .fdi file to prevent hal from automounting some partition.
However the
partitions then disappear from Computer and Removable Media completely.

I'd like to set mounting same way as it's done in Ubuntu: all the
partitions are 
listed in Computer and Removable Media but they are not automounted so I
can 
mount any of them as I need with one click. 
As to removable media such as CD/DVD and usb-sticks I'd like to appear
automounted as inserted.

I really tried to solve this myself and with the forum help but...no
luck. 

Please help!




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