Mounting removable drives

[Michael Hirsch]

On 7/26/06, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/26/06, Ylan Segal <ylan.segal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Michael Hirsch wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > I am new to Kubuntu, but quite experienced with Linux.  I've recently
> > > installed Kubuntu and am trying to get comfortable using it.  One
> > > thing I can't figure out is how to get my compact flash and sd cards
> > > to mount.

Here's another data point:  At boot I only have the sda* devices in
/dev representing my SATA disk.  If I insert my sd flash card I don't
see the messages in /var/log/messages I'd expect to see and no new
device appears.  If I try to mount /dev/sdb1 it fails, but now I have
a /dev/sdb.  I can try to mount /dev/sdc to create a /dev/sdc, which
fails, but now I can mount /dev/sdc1 which succeeds.

I guess this  makes some sense, but I don't understand why the devices
are created until I request them.  I expected them to be created at
insertion time.

I keep wondering if there is a package I am missing for doing hotplug,
or something.

Thanks for your help,

Michael