Re: removable drives no longer automount after upgrade to dapper

"OOzy Pal" <oozypal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 6/15/06, Florian Diesch <diesch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Florian Diesch <diesch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"OOzy Pal" <oozypal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 6/13/06, Florian Diesch <diesch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"OOzy Pal" <oozypal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I did a clean install like crystal. I even removed the partition. How
clean is that? I still have a problem with my three USB drives (two
sticks and one hard drive). They get mounted as sdc1, sdc2 but not
like in breezy where they get mounted by their labels.

AFAIK in breezy this was done by hotplug and now is done by udev, and for
some reasons it's more difficult now to use the labels. I think there
has been a discussion about that on ubuntu-dev.

Can I revert back to hotplug

It seems there is not hotplug package in Dapper.
As far as I can see udev just lets HAL to do the work now. I never played
around with HAL so I can't help you much but maybe it's at least a
starting point to get more meaningful mountpoints.

Toll a closer look at HAL. As far as I understand the filesystem label
is used as mountpoint if it contains only ASCII chracters and is not a
path (like "/home", "/")


What does
/lib/udev/vol_id /dev/sda1
say (replace /dev/sda1 if needed)?


Search the output of lshal for
volume.policy.desired_mount_point = 'sdc1'
(replace sdc1 with the mountpoint). If you find it please post the
section (starting with something like
"udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_4491_AC1C'") it is
contained in. If you don't find it try to find a section containing a
volume.mount.valid_options =
statement that seems to match your USB drive

Hmm, my USB's are mounted ok with their labels on the desktop but when
I go to /media I don't find them. For example, my USB label is Fox.
When I plug it in, I see the USB icon on the desktop with name Fox but
when I go to /media I don't see Fox, I see for example sdc1. When I
click on the USB icon, Knoqueror is launched with the location of the
use drive as media:/sdc1.

What does lshal say (see above)?


Florian
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