Automount ThumbDrives in fc6

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Mon Dec 11 14:42:32 UTC 2006


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Jim Cornette wrote:
>> Reg Clemens wrote:
>>> I know this has been discussed previously, so if someone can point me
>>> back
>>> at that discussion (or summarize what was there) I would appreciate it.
>>>
>>> But, How does one go about getting thumbdrives automounted under fc6?
>>> I seem to remember something about labeling the (vfat) file system with
>>> a label utility under windows, but thats all I remember.
>>>
>>> I am moving all my users to fc6, and suddenly its important.
>> All I had to do to get the drives to mount with a name was to label the
>> thumb drives under windows. The volume name was mounted automatically
>> under /media/volume-name. Similarly, labeling the ext3 using e2label
>> allowed the ext3 volume to show up under /media/volume-label.
>>
>> Jim
>>
> I don't have any unlabeled drives handy to double check, but an
> unlabeled drive should get mounted on /media/removable. At least it
> used to work that way. It is also possible to turn off auto-mounting
> of removable media...
> 
> Mikkel
Small correction - I found an unlabeled drive, and it mounts as
/media/disk, not /media/removable. The desktop icon has a label with
the size of the drive.

Mikkel
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