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May 16, 2006

Auto mounting of CDs/USB flash memory

Filed under: linux

I’m from time to time thinking of the idea to add auto mounting of CDs and USB stuff (disk-on-key, flash card reader, MP3 player, photo-camera, etc).
Currently my DVD and DVDR are mounted and unmounted with help of two 2-state buttons (created with xfce4-trigger-laucher and 2 short scripts) i have on my xfce4-panel and all the USB stuff is recognized with udev and i manually mount/unmount the devices using xfce-mount-plugin.
There’re several options for auto mounting: use udev itself for USBs and auto-eject-cdrom for CDs, use autofs, submount, supermount, ivman, gnome-volume-manager, and there are probably more… I really don’t know what to choose. I’m counting on your help :) . Please comment and say what are You using and why?
Just a reminder, i use ArchLinux and XFCE.

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