auto-mounting

dan radom dan at radom.org
Tue Sep 6 17:40:39 CEST 2005


* Samuel Wright (lykoszine at gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> Just out of curiosity, what is the opinion of XFCE devs, and others, on auto 
> mounting of CDS and USB Drives? Is it considered totally unnecessary? Not 
> the job of XFCE? Is it on the todo list (how hard is it to implement)? 
> (Should I be talking to the people developing the file manager?)
> It is (in my opinion) one of the greater stumbling blocks that people not 
> experienced with Linux face.

use autofs for automagical mounting of filesystems.  it even works with
nss_ldap!

dan



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