[Novalug] Ubuntu Heron and automounting USB disks

Nick Danger nick@hackermonkey.com
Sun Apr 27 18:09:03 EDT 2008


I found some of it. Its under ~/.gconf/system/storage  Now how to
understand it exactly, it is just xml files so it shouldn't be hard, but
thats another issue :-) I'll let you all know if I figure anything out.
In the meantime, all advice accepted.

nick@hackermonkey.com wrote:
> 
> I had this problem with Gutsy but I didn't worry much about it. Now that I
> upgraded to Hardy, the importance has increased and I need to solve it.
> 
> I have a few USB devices, namely two USB hard disks and two USB thumb drives.
> These are what I use most often. One drive I have set so when I plug it in it
> comes up at specific mount points and my user can move files to/from etc. The
> thumb drives work the same way.
> 
> The new USB drive that I am trying to comes up as /media/usb0, /media/disk and
> /media/disk-1. (there are 3 partitions) The problem is that the regular user
> cannot write or unmount it. I have removed the mount points under media and
> they were recreated. I changed the ownership of the mountpoints but that only
> works until the drive is unplugged/replugged.
> 
> Where does Ubuntu get its automount information? I know I can click the icon and
> change info on the mountpoints but that only works if the user has permissions.
> Where does that information get written?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Nick
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