removable drives no longer automount after upgrade to dapper

[Florian Diesch]

Florian Diesch <diesch at spamfence.net> wrote:

> "OOzy Pal" <oozypal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 6/13/06, Florian Diesch <diesch at spamfence.net> wrote:
>>> "OOzy Pal" <oozypal at gmail.com> 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




   Florian
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