Auto-mounting external USB drive at login

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On ven, 2009-05-29 at 18:03 -0300, John Coppens wrote:
> 
> You should look at /etc/fstab where the drives are listed that are
> automounted on startup, though possibly this won't work if the USB
> system is started too late.
> 
> You probably have 'udev' installed (or 'hotplug' if the system is older),
> which detects when the drive is connected, and can execute the mount code
> automatically. This may need some configuration, though many drive types
> are already defined in the udev rules. The method varies from distro to
> distro.

Udev rules are nice for removable devices, check with thunar-volman too,
which can automount stuff when they are plugged.

For login thing, there are pam module which will mount some fs when
logging in, I think (like, the homedir). Or you could just put it in
your login script.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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