Automatically mounting USB w/o GUI?

[Ted Roche]

On 07/27/2010 10:01 AM, Tom Buskey wrote:
> 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.
>
> So, does anyone know how to have linux mount the USB drives to /media
> like the GUI file managers do w/o using the mount command?
>
> FWIW, I'm using Fedora 12 but I should be able to do this in Ubuntu
> 10.04 as well.  And I'm *not* using a GUI tool to do it, so please no
> Gnome/KDE or "Click on System -> ..." or anything else using a mouse.

Tom:

I haven't tried this, but it seems to me that this is something that
PolicyKit does, and I believe there is a console interface to it.
However, my Google-fu seems to be weak this morning, and I haven't been
able to come up with any recent posts. Here's one, though:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PolicyKitOne


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