Hello all,
Over the past few days, I have been doing some research on how to go about automounting USB connected drives within Slackware. I have come across many topics that suggest the use of udev, pmount, and portmap to accomplish such tasks. I have been working with creating static links to devices with a udev script, but have had minimal success with this. Basically, what I would like to accomplish is the following:

1. Plug in a USB hard drive to an available USB port on my computer
2. Have Slackware automatically mount this USB drive and be able to access its contents by changing to its mount directory (such as typing in "cd /media/usbdisk" from the console)

That's pretty much all that I wish to accomplish, and would like to know the exact steps to take in order to enable this functionality. Thank you in advance.

You need to make sure you have autofs installed and running as a service.

You need to find out what is the partition that the usbdisk is being recognized as. It's usually /dev/sda1. Check by inserting it then watching the output in /var/log/messages and dmesg.

Modify /etc/auto.master and create /etc/auto.usbdisk as follows:

auto.master:

/media /etc/auto.media --timeout=60

auto.media:

usbdisk -fstype=vfat :/dev/sda1

Restart the autofs service then run 'ls /media/usbdisk'

Thanks for the reply. Is autofs something that appears within /etc/rc.d directory to start automatically, or is this a process somewhere else that needs to be installed? Also, for other USB drives, would I make them point to /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1, and so forth? Thanks in advance.

Yes it should be in /etc/rc.d if the package is installed and enabled. I usually just connect the and watch what device name it uses.