Mounting pen-drives

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 17:52 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 20 February 2006 17:27, Claude Jones wrote:
> > On Mon February 20 2006 12:03 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > Everything looks absolutely fine in there.
> > >
> > > BTW, I also have desktop icon for removeable drives checked, but I don't
> > > get one.
> > >
> > > Anne
> >
> > You've plumbed the extent of what I've ever had to do on multiple machines,
> > running multiple distros (MEPIS, PCLinuxOS, and FC4) - on all these
> > machines, I've had no issues after getting those settings right - FYI
> >
> > I actually have more problems with USB externals on my Windows boxes these
> > days (not pen drives, but, mini-drives in external cases)
> >
> > sorry I can't be of more help
> >
> Thanks for trying.  It's odd.  It worked as expected at first, so it must be 
> something that I've changed, but I can't think what.  It's not the end of the 
> world - I can manually mount, but it's just a tad less convenient.
> 

I don't think it is anything _you_ changed.  I had the same experience
and have just lived with it (although it is irritating).  On mine they
seem to auto-mount but I never get the desktop icon.  If I manually do
an unmount then remount (from the CLI) the icon shows up.

HTH
Jeff