On Tuesday 12 October 2010 23:38:36 John Andersen wrote:
Unless you take steps to edit your fstab the normal way of mounting USB devices is via the user-space stuff built into the notifier.
If you have a vfat hard disk that you frequently want to mount, put it in fstab with a proper entry ( auto or vfat for the type) and you can either mount it on demand (if user has rights) or automatically.
But for USB devices, just let the system do it upon insertion. (Its taken 10 years to get it to be this easy, so don't try to out-think it.)
To which I would add, on a single user desktop system, it's generally a good idea to set "Automatically mount removable media when attached", and "Mount removable media at login" in the "Removable Devices" System Settings page. Reasons not to automount would be if you have an optical disk that spins up noisily or if you regularly do things to unmounted volumes, like copying live cd images onto USB disks. Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org