device automount
 

Hi,

I wonder what is controlling drive automounting on desktop in Gnome? Why a USB drive shows on desktop once inserted, but correctly formatted eSATA drive does not when turned on? Perhaps something can be done using /etc/fstab, but nothing special is needed for formatted USB, it is just sort of automounting. Is there some daemon and how it can be manipulated?

Hi:

Most likely it is set to 'on' in your Advanced Settings.
In other words; the show mounted volumes on the desktop is set to the on position:-

I don't know if there is a daemon for that; sorry.
http://linux.die.net/man/8/mountd

Primarily udev daemon/service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udev; replaces the old hotplug tech.