vvmarko@panet.co.yu wrote:
Sorry if this has already been asked/answered, I seem to have missed the answer.
Under FC4 I would plug in the USB flash drive, and see in /var/log/messages that it is autodetected as /dev/sd*, and then the mount point /media/whatever being created and assigned to it. After that, I would just type
$ mount /media/whatever
(as an ordinary user, not root) to have the device mounted, if I wish. That was the default behavior in FC4, but not in FC6 or F7. Now I have to mkdir a mount point, su to root, then mount -t vfat /dev/sda /somewhere, chown the files to my username, and then use the device. Possible, but painful --- I got used to all that being automatic... :-(
So, how do I get that behavior back? I want it to work for all devices I might plug in, including USB flash drives, CDs, DVDs, external HDs, etc.
Best regards, :-) Marko
If you are logged into X, it should mount it as well, unless you have auto-mounting turned off. From the command line, you can use gnome-mount. (gnome-mount -d /dev/sda1) There are several ways to tell gnome-mount what you want to mount. By default, it will create the mount point in /media for you. You run gnome-mount as a normal user.
I have run into problems when the partition on a USB hard drive, or a pen drive did not have a label/name. But I think an update fixed that. (I have everything labeled right now, so I can not check...)
Mikkel