Re: [tlug] Crazy automount solution

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:25:22 -0500, Ben Konrath <ben@example.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-19-01 at 11:52 -0500, Josh Glover wrote:
>
> > On my local LUG (COLUG, the Central Ohio Linux Users Group) mailing
> > list, some chap posted about how he could get his USB hard drive to
> > automount. I thought several of you on this list might be amused by or
> > interested in my solution:
> 
> I read through the solution and I think that there is a better way to do
> it.

Sure, but I am not the automounting type, and I thought that this
little shell script had some esoteric value in the Unix tradition.

> Specifically, Robert Love's "Project Utopia" handles this kind of
> thing without the need to poll or even to add an entry to your fstab.
> You should be able to configure this in Gnome Volume Manager.

I will forward this information along to the OP.

Cheers,
Josh