How to automount usb drive?

[jurojon]

When I plug in an usb harddrive, the device notifier pick it up, but the drive won't be mounted until I click on it and open in dolphin. How can I get it to automount when plugged?

regards

[Mr_Bumpy]

Re: How to automount usb drive?

I am running into the same problem as you. A bug has been filed with the KDE team, so hopefully they will address it in a future release.

In the meantime, a drive will automount if you add an entry for it in /etc/fstab. If you don't mind getting your hands dirty under the hood of your system, here are the instructions.

The only problem that I've run into with this method is that if I want to remove the drive while the PC is on, I have to do it as root (sudo umount /media/flash, for example).

[Guest]

Re: How to automount usb drive?

I had the same problem on Kubuntu 8.04.2, KDE 3.5.10 and I think I stumbled onto an easy workaround.

When you plug in the USB drive you should get a "new media detected" window (unless you disabled it) - just cancel this.

Look on your desktop and you should see an icon for the USB drive even though it didn't mount.

Right-click the USB drive icon, select "Properties", select the "Mounting" tab, check the "Mount automatically" check box, and click "OK".

Unplug the drive, wait a few seconds, then plug it back in. It should mount automatically.

Unfortunately it looks like you'll have to do it for each separate USB drive you plug in > , but once you set it for that drive it will mount it every time.

Hope this works for you too!

--Rob

[Mr_Bumpy]

Re: How to automount usb drive?

Unfortunately, while this works for the KDE 3.5 series, it doesn't work for KDE 4.2 that I'm using.

[Rog131]

Re: How to automount usb drive?

Few plasmoids:

> New Device Notifier with Automount

An extended version of the original devicenotifier-applet which mounts the new media after it was inserted.

> Device Manager

Description:
This is the Device Notifier with two changes:
-it shows the not removable devices too
-when there are more than one action for a device instead of opening that ugly window it adds one button per action under the device
...
- added an option for the automount
...