I use several devices such as a USB hard drive and a USB iPod. I am wondering if someone could give me a pointer on how to automatically mount these devices within Debian 3.1. Right now when I plug them in my computer does nothing. How can I get my system to automatically mount these devices for me and place an icon on my desktop (similar to other distributions)?

Thanks for any help!

Mike

Thanks for the pointer on Hal but when I try to use apt to install it I get the following message:

"hal is already the newest version."

Is there any configuration that I might need to do for Hal to automount my devices?

Could it be that I need to be part of a certain group in order to use this functionality?

I did add myself to the "hal" group but that didn't seem to make a difference.

Thanks again for the help.

Same problem. hal, hotplug installed:
Jan 14 14:05:57 small-daddy kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-2, assigned address 4
Jan 14 14:05:57 small-daddy kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jan 14 14:05:57 small-daddy kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1308
Jan 14 14:05:57 small-daddy kernel: Vendor: Maxtor 6 Model: B300R0 Rev: 0000
Jan 14 14:05:57 small-daddy kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jan 14 14:05:57 small-daddy kernel: WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
Jan 14 14:05:57 small-daddy kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 4
Jan 14 14:05:58 small-daddy hal.hotplug[9278]: could not get mountpoint for sysfs
Jan 14 14:06:01 small-daddy usb.agent[9279]: usb-storage: already loaded


How do I get it to mount (automatically or manually)? Also, I'm a newbie, so how do I get it to unmount later. I've been looking through several posts, but generally the person figure out how to fix it, but never posts how it was done. I'm running Debian stable.

I believe that you need to use a 2.6 kernel as well for automatic mounting, also you might want to install "gnome-media" for it to automatically show on GNOME.

Oh, FYI, this drive was initialized Ext3 via my NSLU2 device. I disconnected and tried connecting to my linux box to access disk info.

I'm running Blackbox

dylan@small-daddy:~$ uname -a
Linux small-daddy 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

To get it to unmount, you either right click on the drive and unmount it if it showns up in GNOME; or just run:NEVER remove a usb device without unmounting it , as it could corrupt it. If you can't umount it (e.g. if you don't have root access), you should run "sync" before removing the USB device.

now if I could just get it mounted. I plug it in and I get this:
Jan 14 15:10:09 small-daddy hal.hotplug[9606]: could not get mountpoint for sysfs
Jan 14 15:10:25 small-daddy kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-2, assigned address 5
Jan 14 15:10:25 small-daddy kernel: WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
Jan 14 15:10:25 small-daddy kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 5
Jan 14 15:10:25 small-daddy hal.hotplug[9635]: could not get mountpoint for sysfs
Jan 14 15:10:29 small-daddy usb.agent[9636]: usb-storage: already loaded

Rebooted with drive attached. Now it came up without error:

Jan 14 16:20:53 small-daddy kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Jan 14 16:20:53 small-daddy kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
Jan 14 16:20:53 small-daddy kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jan 14 16:20:53 small-daddy kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 273
Jan 14 16:20:53 small-daddy kernel: Vendor: Maxtor 6 Model: B300R0 Rev: 0000
Jan 14 16:20:53 small-daddy kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jan 14 16:20:53 small-daddy kernel: WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
Jan 14 16:20:53 small-daddy kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 2
Jan 14 16:20:53 small-daddy kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.


Then I just mounted it:

mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt
mount -t ext3 /dev/sda2 /mnt2

Jan 14 16:52:04 small-daddy kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,1), internal journal
Jan 14 16:52:04 small-daddy kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Jan 14 16:54:33 small-daddy kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Jan 14 16:54:33 small-daddy kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,2), internal journal
Jan 14 16:54:33 small-daddy kernel: EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
Jan 14 16:54:33 small-daddy kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.


Now I have access to all NSLU2's system files!

I was able to mount mine as well by typing the following at the command prompt:
"mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb_hd/"

I still have two questions though. The first is, when I connect a device to the usb how do I know which device block (ie /dev/*) to use when mounting? sda1 seemed to work for this time but in general how can I determine this?

Second, what is the filesystem type of iPods? Mine was marketed as "For Mac or Windows"

Thanks
Mike

I thought you were trying to AUTO mount the USB drives? Using "mount /dev/sda ..." is not autmounting. Honestly, stop wasting people's time ...

By the way, coorbust, have you ever wondered what the Edit button is for?

I was just trying to get the freaking machine to acknowledge the drive was attached. And, nope, never noticed the edit button, thanks for pointing that out.

First step to automount is making sure you can even mount it..am I right?