[vox-tech] external HD

[Jonathan Stickel]

Donald Greg McGahan wrote:
> Dmitriy wrote:
> 
>> On Monday 21 March 2005 10:35, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Ah, you must be using Fedora 3.  Fedora 3 has someone neat deamon
>>> running that detects when a usb mass storage device is plugged in,
>>> creates a mount point in /media, AND automatically edits /etc/fstab.
>>> That part is desktop independent.  You can then create a desktop device
>>> icon in KDE that mounts and umounts the device.
>>>   
>>
>> Or maybe just Gnome. That could be Gnome Volume Manager. I think it's 
>> been part of gnome since 2.8, but not too sure.
>> It uses HAL/D-bus to listen to various HAL events and mount new 
>> devices or download pics from the camera,play a CD/DVD,burn a CD, etc...
>>
>> I haven't seen any stuff from KDE doing HAL/D-bus integration.
>> But then again I haven't really kept up with what KDE does these days.
>>
>> Fedora might have some other daemon that does similar thing, maybe 
>> with less features.
>>
>>  
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> So seems the best thing for me is to stay away from hopping between 
> Gnome and KDE. A sound KISS solution.
> Donald Greg McGahan
> 
> 
What about using automount?