How do you all mount removable media?

Josh000 · 01-06-2010, 03:30 PM

I am currently manually mounting DVDs and such as I need them.

I am wondering what most people have setup, or perhaps what is the norm for slack users?

Some sort of auto mount setup?

Everything defined in fstab, so manually mounting is more convenient?

Or something else?

amiga32 · 01-06-2010, 03:41 PM

HAL for now

Josh000 · 01-06-2010, 03:51 PM

HAL doesn't automount by default, right?

SqdnGuns · 01-06-2010, 04:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Josh000

HAL doesn't automount by default, right?

Might be worth reading:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL

markush · 01-06-2010, 04:52 PM

Hello Josh000,

I'm using the halevt daemon.

Markus

Didier Spaier · 01-06-2010, 05:29 PM

I usually use pmount, available @ http://slackbuilds.org

For my USB hard disk I wrote a set of rules sin /etc/udev/rules.d

I could do that too for DVDs and such.

slide77 · 01-06-2010, 05:59 PM

It probably depends on how often you use them. I do it all manually because I will often put a disk in to use later and don't like having it spinning or popping up the automount thing until I'm ready. I made scripts (or you could make an alias) with the mount commands with names like cdm and dvdm and just type those in whenever I need to mount something. But I don't use disks much. If I used them once a day or more, I might auto-mount.

snowtigger · 01-06-2010, 11:37 PM

the pixies do mine.

or is it something else? I use xfce and thunar with its volume manager.