How can a custom-mounted drive show on desktop as mounted
 

Have you tried to add the mount line to the fstab file?
I used the fstab to make a mount point for an xfat usb drive, it
paused whiloe loading,
but worked nice when i plugged the drive in, i could mount it easier...

if you need help, have a look at the man pages for the fstab file.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:27 AM, dg1727 <dg1727@hushmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have posted this on the xfce AT xfce DOT org mailing list, and
> not gotten an answer yet, so maybe someone on this list has a
> suggestion:
>
> On Xubuntu 12.04.1, I have written a "udev" rule that calls a
> custom shell script to mount a USB ext4fs drive with custom mount
> options. The drive gets mounted correctly so that the "mount"
> command shows the drive and the correct options. On the XFCE
> desktop, however, the drive icon is grayed out, and the icon's
> right-click menu has an option for "Mount Volume."
>
> Is there a way to have XFCE update the icon automatically, as soon
> as the USB drive is inserted, to show that the volume is already
> mounted?
>
> I have tried:
>
> thunar-volman --device-added /sys$DEVPATH
>
> where $DEVPATH is the sysfs path of the newly added device. This
> command doesn't seem to do anything, including when I run the
> command in a terminal window (even with superuser privileges).
>
> Installed versions include xfdesktop 4.8.3, thunar-volman 0.6.1
>
> Thanks for any insight, including if I have missed something
> obvious.
>
> -dg1727
>
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How can a custom-mounted drive show on desktop as mounted
 

On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:56:14 -0400 Tom Stephens
<twstephens@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:27 AM, dg1727 <dg1727@hushmail.com>
>wrote:
>> On Xubuntu 12.04.1, I have written a "udev" rule that calls a
>> custom shell script to mount a USB ext4fs drive with custom
>> mount options. The drive gets mounted correctly so that the
>> "mount" command shows the drive and the correct options. On
>> the XFCE desktop, however, the drive icon is grayed out, and
>> the icon's right-click menu has an option for "Mount Volume."
>>
>> Is there a way to have XFCE update the icon automatically, as
>> soon as the USB drive is inserted, to show that the volume is
>> already mounted?
>>
>> I have tried:
>>
>> thunar-volman --device-added /sys$DEVPATH
>>
>> where $DEVPATH is the sysfs path of the newly added device.
>>
>> Installed versions include xfdesktop 4.8.3, thunar-volman 0.6.1
>
>Have you tried to add the mount line to the fstab file?
>I used the fstab to make a mount point for an xfat usb drive, it
>paused whiloe loading,
>but worked nice when i plugged the drive in, i could mount it
>easier...
>
>if you need help, have a look at the man pages for the fstab file.

Thanks for the suggestion, Tom. I _don't_ want to use /etc/fstab
(which would require me to specify volume label, UUID, and/or block-
device name in the /etc/fstab file). The volume in question will
be connected by USB, and any of those 3 attributes of the volume
could change.

Normally, when a USB drive (volume) is plugged in that isn't listed
in fstab, XFCE shows a desktop icon for this drive, and a right-
click on that icon shows "Eject Volume," indicating that the drive
is mounted. I would like the same thing to happen with my custom-
mounted drive.

Maybe someone can propose a way to do this?

-dg1727


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