gnome-volume-manager not writing to fstab
 

Hello everyone,

I am relatively new to Linux administration.

My Linux version is red hat 5.3.

I installed the gnome-volume-manager.2.22.0-5.fc9.i386.rpm with the nodeps option.

I plug in my usb drive but gnome-volume-manager does not write the entry, /dev/sda /media/<usbdrive>, to my /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab. I thought it was suppose to update either one of those files. Anyhow, I would like it to automount my usb instead of me installing it manually. What am I doing wrong or not doing?

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

You don't need gnome-volume-manager.2.22.0-5.fc9.i386.rpm. Rhel5 have USB support and also automount support by default under desktop environment.

Hi ursusca! Thanks for replying!

Our Linux admin made a customize Linux cd and apparently removed a feature that Linux no longer auto mounts. Would you happen to know what the program is called for auto mounting devices.

Thanks.

Hi,

Check this packages for your gnome desktop environment:

rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE} (%{ARCH})\n" | grep
nautilus \
control-center \
yelp \
gnome-terminal \
gnome-panel \
gnome-applets \
gnome-session \
metacity \
gnome-user-docs \
vino \
gnome-themes \
gedit \
gnome-power-manager \
evince \
gnome-system-monitor \
gtkhtml3 \
alacarte \
gnome-backgrounds \
at-spi \
gnome-volume-manager \
gok \
gnome-audio \
dvd+rw-tools \
nautilus-cd-burner \
esc \
gnome-user-share \
gtk2-engines \
NetworkManager-gnome \
gimp-print-utils \
desktop-printing \
im-chooser \
gnome-netstatus \
sabayon-apply \
nautilus-open-terminal \
file-roller \
gnome-mag \
gnome-utils \
nautilus-sendto \
eog \
gnome-screensaver \
hal-gnome \
gnome-media \
gnome-vfs2-smb \
gnome-pilot \
orca \

also check the hald daemon

You can find a gnome-volume-manager package for rhel here.
Once you’ve got it running, you can run gnome-volume-properties to configure what it should do when it detects and mounts a volume. It can run programs, open a file browser, and so forth.