On Thursday 03 June 2004 03:43 pm, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > We are in 2004 and lot and lots of people have USB keys. The fact > that FC2 does not do the proper thing for detecting the insertion > of an USB key, mounting it and popping a Nautilus/Konqueror window on it > must be considered a bug. It kinda does, except not with all USB keys and without doing graceful things like adding the new device to the nautilus devices screen. If you look in /etc/updfstab.conf.default, you will notice a lot of devices listed. Not all, but a lot. For example, for my USB key I had to add separate entries for my devices, e.g. in the diskonkey field: match hd "Ultra Floppy" because my USB key identifies itself as: kernel: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 15 kernel: scsi12 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices kernel: Vendor: OTi Model: Ultra Floppy Rev: 1.11 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 kernel: SCSI device sda: 64512 512-byte hdwr sectors (33 MB) kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through kernel: sda: sda1 kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi12, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 The "Model: Ultra Floppy" part is how updfstab identifies the device and knows what to do with it. So, once the "match" for this device is added to /etc/updfstab.conf, the process becomes automatic. Once you plug in your device, you will see the device added to fstab and do the ownerships correctly to the console user. The only problem is that nautilus will have no idea about the new device, so you can only mount it from the command line. This is an unhappy situation, but at least it's getting somewhere. I don't know if I would want the devices automatically mounted on insertion, as this could lead to unhappy places, but just making nautilus aware of changes happening to fstab would be great. --icon
