Automatic mounting of removable meadia

Heinrich Rebehn rebehn at ant.uni-bremen.de
Tue Oct 21 08:19:13 PDT 2003


Hi list,

Is it possible to automatically mount media when they are inserted?
 From the GNOME 2.4 documentation (Nautilus, 1.8.1:To mount Media):

"
If your system is not configured to mount the device automatically, you 
must mount the device manually. Right-click on the desktop, then choose 
Disks->device-name. For example, to mount a floppy diskette, choose 
Disks->Floppy. An object that represents the media is added to the desktop.
"

So, how can i configure FreeBSD to mount the device automatically?

Unfortunately, the GNOME way to manually mount media via an entry in 
/etc/fstab does not work under FreeBSD since the mountpoint must be 
owned by the user, which is difficult to configure for a multiuser system.

Any solution?

Heinrich
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Heinrich Rebehn

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