OK; this is what I want my debian system to do: when a new USB-storage device is plugged in, I want fstab to be updated in a very simple manner. I don't want any icons on the desktop, nor any automounting; just an fstab-update. If, for example, a USB- or firewire device is plugged in with two partitions, I want these additions to fstab:

/dev/sdf1 /mnt/sdf1 auto defaults 0 0
/dev/sdf2 /mnt/sdf2 auto defaults 0 0

or something like that...

I've been looking for a tool which would do this everywhere ever since I started using debian, but with no result. Can anyone give me directions? If there's no such tool (which would be very suprising), does anyone know what I should use as a base and then program something like that myself - it shouldn't be too hard to do, should it?

Thanks.

why not leave those lines in fstab all the time?

ps. check out hotplug

Thanks for the reply; I'll check out hotplug

Well, I want to be able to plug in USB sticks in any order. For example, I have one USB-stick with 1 partition and one external HDD with 3 partitions. I want fstab to have the proper lines independently of which one I happen to plug in first.