[NBLUG/talk] USB automount issues

Bob Blick bblick at sonic.net
Mon Aug 2 15:17:17 PDT 2004


> Before I set up autofs, my friends were, like, "Linux is better?  And
> you still have to type all that stuff in just to use a usb thumbdrive?
> O...k...."

Or if you use KDE, just make an fstab entry for it and point a desktop
shortcut to it - rightclick to mount or unmount.

Autofs sounds great, but it appears that the big distros are currently
confusing things, so figuring out what's going wrong is (unfortunately)
neccessary.

-Bob






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