automatically mounting dvd/external hds

moaxcp

Hello I was wondering what is the best way to automatically mount things in Gentoo? It looks like the choices are udisks or autofs. autofs uses the kernel automounter and udisks uses dbus. Are there any reasons to choose one over the other?

eccerr0r · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 4:14 pm Post subject:

It's up to you. It depends on what kind of user interface you expect, I suspect the dbus method is more pleasant to the desktop environment user as it was designed from the ground up for that purpose so it will show your disks when plugged in, and removed when you unplug. Automount/autofs I feel is more for NFS but it works for both.

If you install a DE with udisks/dbus support automount tends to be set up for you. Autofs for disks requires a little configuration, but I think autofs is more for devices that are rarely removed/inserted on the system (used for a long period of time, known origin/destinations.) udisks is more for when you don't necessarily know much about the media being inserted, other than being on the console somewhere.
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moaxcp · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 8:20 pm Post subject:

I am using LXDE. I will look into how it works with udisks if at all.

eccerr0r · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 11:32 pm Post subject:

The file manager for LXDE (pcmanfm?) looks like it should report udisks, so it should work fine if it was built properly.

I've used udisks with XFCE/thunar and Gnome/nautilus, they work very well, saves a lot of effort for single user machines.
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moaxcp · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 1:08 am Post subject:

Oh wow. I didn't realize that. I was trying to open a win95 cd and it wasn't working. The cd works it just isn't getting mounted for some reason.