Centos6 - Xfce - howto add usb automount
 

Vreme: 11/15/2011 04:11 PM, Johan Vermeulen piše:
> dear all,
>
> I configured Xfce on an Centos6 minimal install, I think its very fast,
> even on al 512Mb machine.
>
> But I don't have any clue how to make a usb automount on this.
>
> Anybody can help me with this?
>
> greetings, James
>

I think autofs package is needed, but not sure.

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Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> Vreme: 11/15/2011 04:11 PM, Johan Vermeulen pi?e:
>> dear all,
>>
>> I configured Xfce on an Centos6 minimal install, I think its very fast,
>> even on al 512Mb machine.
>>
>> But I don't have any clue how to make a usb automount on this.
>>
>> Anybody can help me with this?
>
> I think autofs package is needed, but not sure.

That *is* what does it. It needs to be installed, and it will run as a
daemon.

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On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 04:29:08PM +0100, Johan Vermeulen wrote:

> Op 15-11-11 16:11, Johan Vermeulen schreef:
> > dear all,
> >
> > I configured Xfce on an Centos6 minimal install, I think its very fast,
> > even on al 512Mb machine.
> >
> > But I don't have any clue how to make a usb automount on this.
> >
> > Anybody can help me with this?
> >
> > greetings, James
>
> answering my own question here ---> by installing Nautilus. That easy !

Nautilus is heavy, defeats somehow the whole purpose of using
XFCE. :-)

I'd suggest:

Thunar --daemon

to handle media automounting.

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Vreme: 11/15/2011 04:50 PM, Mihai T. Lazarescu piše:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 04:29:08PM +0100, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
>
>> Op 15-11-11 16:11, Johan Vermeulen schreef:
>>> dear all,
>>>
>>> I configured Xfce on an Centos6 minimal install, I think its very fast,
>>> even on al 512Mb machine.
>>>
>>> But I don't have any clue how to make a usb automount on this.
>>>
>>> Anybody can help me with this?
>>>
>>> greetings, James
>>
>> answering my own question here ---> by installing Nautilus. That easy !
>
> Nautilus is heavy, defeats somehow the whole purpose of using
> XFCE. :-)
>
> I'd suggest:
>
> Thunar --daemon
>
> to handle media automounting.
>
> Mihai

For NFS automounting I use autofs and create a link for that directory
to some other location (symlink) when you already mounted that directory
with "cd <name>" or "ls <name>".

So when I open symlink, NFS mount is automaticaly mounted.

Maybe you can use that for USB's.


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On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:


Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:

Vreme: 11/15/2011 04:11 PM, Johan Vermeulen piše:

dear all,

I configured Xfce on an Centos6 minimal install, I think its very fast,
even on al 512Mb machine.

But I don't have any clue how to make a usb automount on this.

Anybody can help me with this?


I think autofs package is needed, but not sure.


That *is* what does it. It needs to be installed, and it will run as a
daemon.


Hmm not on a normal machine AFAIK. autofs normally keeps well out of the way
of random removable devices, unlike bits of gnome (that clearly nautilus is
either responsible for, or pulls in the bit that is) that likes to get busy
with creating /media/ography}{5} when a usb hard disk gets plugged in. Quite
how it picked that when the vfat filesystem had no label I'm not entirely
clear...

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John Hodrien wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
>> Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>>> Vreme: 11/15/2011 04:11 PM, Johan Vermeulen pi?e:
>>>>
>>>> I configured Xfce on an Centos6 minimal install, I think its very
>>>> fast,even on al 512Mb machine.
>>>>
>>>> But I don't have any clue how to make a usb automount on this.
>>>
>>> I think autofs package is needed, but not sure.
>>
>> That *is* what does it. It needs to be installed, and it will run as a
>> daemon.
>
> Hmm not on a normal machine AFAIK. autofs normally keeps well out of the
> way of random removable devices, unlike bits of gnome (that clearly
> nautilus is either responsible for, or pulls in the bit that is) that
> likes to get busy with creating /media/ography}{5} when a usb hard
> disk gets plugged in. Quite how it picked that when the vfat filesystem
> had no label I'm not entirely clear...

But the autofs package contains automount, and that is what handles USB
drives, etc.

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On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

> But the autofs package contains automount, and that is what handles USB
> drives, etc.

Seriously, this isn't the case with the normal gnome automounting of usb
devices. I've just tried uninstalling autofs and it merrily continues
working. I've not poked under the skin of gnome to know what actually goes
on, but figured udev's involved at some stage along with dbus. udisks seems
to support that logic, but I really don't know the specifics.

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Vreme: 11/15/2011 05:59 PM, John Hodrien piše:
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> But the autofs package contains automount, and that is what handles USB
>> drives, etc.
>
> Seriously, this isn't the case with the normal gnome automounting of usb
> devices. I've just tried uninstalling autofs and it merrily continues
> working. I've not poked under the skin of gnome to know what actually goes
> on, but figured udev's involved at some stage along with dbus. udisks seems
> to support that logic, but I really don't know the specifics.
>

I looked a little, and hald seams to be the one mounting them, or maybe
udev. I read that one of those systems is absolete, but can not confirm,
and I am out of free time to look for the answer at the time.

Here is something from Kubuntu, maybe it points you in the right direction:

"On my Kubuntu 10.04, the configuration file for halevt is located at
/etc/halevt/halevt.xml. By Kubuntu default, halevt will automount all
removable media with the option sync. It's much better to mount them
read-only to avoid wearing on the media. To do so, modify the following
lines in halevt.xml"


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