Solution - Re: Fedora Core 3 and USB drives

On Saturday 19 February 2005 03:59 pm, Craig White wrote:
>
> ----
> if you think about it - auto would probably be a bad idea in the fstab
> since it wouldn't necessarily know which user to automount for.
>
> I don't use KDE but I would guess like all other things KDE - somewhere
> in the massive Kcontrol (Control Panel) there are things for this type
> of behavior.
>
> If you think about it - the intent of udev is to have user control over
> these types of elements (removable disks whether a camera, a floppy, a
> USB drive etc.). I can't believe that KDE is so crude as to require
> someone to open a terminal and issue a command 'mount /media/SIMPTECH'
> There has to be a more simple, intelligent way. You naturally
> gravitated toward a hacker mentality and wanted to raw force the read
> issue as root which as you can see now, wasn't the intended method - my
> guess is that KDE has a method that somehow you aren't discovering.

Here's what I ended up doing which is a fine solution for me.

1. Added my user to the 'disk' group which gives me mount and read/write
access to the disks. I probably should create a separate 'usbdisk' group
for just the USB devices but have not done that yet.

2. With the change above my user can mount and umount the USB drives at
the command line.

3. Created new icons for the USB drives on the desktop. I did this by:
- Insert the USB drive.
- Right click on the desktop and choose: Create New -> Device -> Hard
disc device...
- On the General tab put "USB Stick" as device name.
- On the Device tab choose the associated device, in this case /dev/sb1

4. It still does not automount but I can insert the USB stick and right
click the icon, click 'Mount' and I am good to go. Right click and
'Unmount' and I can remove it.

I created a separate icon for the card reader on /dev/sda1.

So, I am good to go. Thanks for the help!

Alan
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