Automount USB 2.0 HD via PCMCIA

[Scott Talbot]

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 18:51, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scott Fones [mailto:boson245 at msn.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 11:03 PM
> > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: RE: Automount USB 2.0 HD via PCMCIA
> > 
> > 
> > I was thinking the same thing, that it was an invalid block 
> > device because 
> > PCMCIA modules weren't loaded.  I thought there might be a 
> > deffered auto 
> > mount option, but I've since decided to use the automount 
> > daemon.  Thanks 
> > for the reply though.
> 
> Hmm... automount.. Heard lots about it... but never ventured there..
> 
> So.. How does it go??
> 
> An entry into auto.misc or something like that?

	Pretty close to that.  Setup is in Auto.Master (you tell system the
main automount directory there) then the auto.misc is where you setup
what the device directories will be called.

	This works fairly well but the caveat is that for instance when
selecting the drive from a requester, the directory doesn't exist until
you select it, meaning you will have to type the name into the
requester.

For a better answer look in the archives for the thread hotplug
usb-storage experience. A Jason Cortezzo detailed a way to automount a
usb ram device such that when he plugged it in it would auto mount and
an icon would show up for it.  It should be modifiable to other usb
devices though!

Scott