Kubuntu Karmic does not mount USB device automatically.

[goranbr]

Since upgrading to Karmic Koala I have two problems relating to mounting of USB sticks:

1) Kubuntu no longer mounts my USB sticks automatically:

I can however mount them manually using something like "mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /mnt/usb".

2) Kubuntu does not allow users to get write permissions to the USB stick:

Tried fiddling with the options in /etc/fstab (like "users,rw") but to no avail.

Could anyone give me any tip on how to solve these nagging little problems?

Would be very greatful!

[Rog131]

Re: Kubuntu Karmic does not mount USB device automatically.

Are you using the KDE4 ?
Do you have the device notifier plasma widget on ?


The KDE 4 is using a device notifier (or manager) plasmoid to present the options for a new device.






Some of the plasmoids have the option to automount.




KDE-Look, plasmoids
> New Device Notifier with Automount
> Device Manager


Binaries can be found from the PPA repositories > Personal Package Archives for Ubuntu

Repositories and the using the PPA repositories > FAQ: Repositories


The future (?) > device notifier work for 4.4

[goranbr]

Re: Kubuntu Karmic does not mount USB device automatically.

Thanks for your reply!

I guess I'll wait for the KDE 4.4 Device manager then. It looks great!

/Goran

[GreyGeek]

Re: Kubuntu Karmic does not mount USB device automatically.

I'm running KDE 4.3.3 and I noticed that when I updated from 4.3.2 that I lost USB auto mounting.

I iinstalled usbmount (in the repository) and things work well again.