On Monday 16 July 2007 17:06, Mark Haney wrote: > vvmarko@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Under FC4 I would plug in the USB flash drive, and see in > > /var/log/messages that it is autodetected as /dev/sd*, and then the mount > > point /media/whatever being created and assigned to it. After that, I > > would just type > > > > $ mount /media/whatever > > > > (as an ordinary user, not root) to have the device mounted, if I wish. > > That was the default behavior in FC4, but not in FC6 or F7. Now I have to > > mkdir a mount point, su to root, then mount -t vfat /dev/sda /somewhere, > > chown the files to my username, and then use the device. Possible, but > > painful --- I got used to all that being automatic... :-( > > I had this problem (or a similar one) recently and my problem was udevd > had stopped/crashed/wasn't running. Thanks for the tip, I'll look into it. But as far as I can see, udevd is not listed under services, nor is running by default (this was a clean install of F7). But anyway, tommorow I'll find some time to read the man page. Best, :-) Marko Marko Vojinovic Institute of Physics University of Belgrade ====================== e-mail: vmarko@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
