Automounting a usb stick happens differently on two systems

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Jul 25 01:45:05 UTC 2006


Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> I have two FC4 installations.  On one, when inserting a USB stick, I get
> a nice Icon on my KDE desktop.  I can right click it and "Mount" the
> stick and it mounts on /media/usbdisk.  On the other system, the stick
> is recognized, at least I see it in the /var/log/messages file as
> /dev/sda1 but I don't get a USB Icon on my desktop. So I have to mount
> it by hand.
> 
> Where is the configuration file for this operation so I may make both
> machines operate the same?  I know I could add some stuff to /etc/fstab
> to do this, but the machine that does it automatically does NOT have
> anything in the fstab file for mounting the USB stick.  Both machines
> were installed the same.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Doug P
> 
You may want to look at the kcontrol --> Peripherals --> Storage
Media --> Unmounted Removable Medium settings.

Mikkel
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