Automatically mounting USB w/o GUI?

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> writes:
>
> I want my USB drive to show up mounted on /media/<some label> after I plug
> it in.
> I don't mind having to type something on the command line to trigger it.
> 
> In Solaris, I put a CD/Floppy/USB in and type "volcheck".  Then it checks
> for the presence of something and mounts it.
> I can type df and see where it mounts it.  I don't run mount or anything
> else that requires root.  If I want to use a file manager, I can.  But I
> don't have to.

pmount will get you the `mounting removable volumes/media without being root'
feature.

If you want it to happen *automatically*, you can try usbmount,
or HAL + ivman.

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