Automount Any External Flash Drive/SD Card
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 11:35 am
Hi,
I installed linux mint XFCE recently and it is working great, except that automount doesn't seem to work as expected. I always keep a copy of partedmagic in my DVD drive to backup my partitions using clonezilla whenever required.
When I used the liveCD, the internal NTFS partitions, the attached USB flash drive and the DVD drive were mounted automatically. However, after installing Linux Mint into my laptop, the automount doesn't seem to work as expected.
I did use PYSDM to mount the internal windows partitions at boot and this is working fine. I want to be able to automount any USB flash drive/SD card/camera/ipod etc with out touching /etc/fstab since I have several USB flash drives and I don't to add each device in the /etc/fstab. Also, I don't want to manually create any folders under /media. I did try udev option and it worked with partial success. Upon inserting the USB flash drive, it mounted on /media/sdb1, but it did not show up in Thunar. When I added /dev/sdb1 to the favourites, I am able to browse, but I was not able to unmount it from Thunar. The "Eject' icon is not showing in Thunar. I had to go to command line and issue a "sudo umount /dev/sdb1", which I don't want to do.
Can some one tell me a reliable way of automounting any externally connected devices with out editing /etc/fstab? My windows partition is showing up in Thunar as "210GB Volume" and I prefer this kind of mount. It does show the Eject Icon at the side as shown in the attachment.
Thanks,
Balaji.
I installed linux mint XFCE recently and it is working great, except that automount doesn't seem to work as expected. I always keep a copy of partedmagic in my DVD drive to backup my partitions using clonezilla whenever required.
When I used the liveCD, the internal NTFS partitions, the attached USB flash drive and the DVD drive were mounted automatically. However, after installing Linux Mint into my laptop, the automount doesn't seem to work as expected.
I did use PYSDM to mount the internal windows partitions at boot and this is working fine. I want to be able to automount any USB flash drive/SD card/camera/ipod etc with out touching /etc/fstab since I have several USB flash drives and I don't to add each device in the /etc/fstab. Also, I don't want to manually create any folders under /media. I did try udev option and it worked with partial success. Upon inserting the USB flash drive, it mounted on /media/sdb1, but it did not show up in Thunar. When I added /dev/sdb1 to the favourites, I am able to browse, but I was not able to unmount it from Thunar. The "Eject' icon is not showing in Thunar. I had to go to command line and issue a "sudo umount /dev/sdb1", which I don't want to do.
Can some one tell me a reliable way of automounting any externally connected devices with out editing /etc/fstab? My windows partition is showing up in Thunar as "210GB Volume" and I prefer this kind of mount. It does show the Eject Icon at the side as shown in the attachment.
Thanks,
Balaji.