automounting flash drive etc..ivman still needed?

tomm7 · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2007 Posts: 37

i have various flash drive mp3 players etc and want them to automount in kde someone told me to use ivman but his kde version is considerably older then mine so is it still necessary?
i've set ivman up using the guide below with a script to start up as user (/etc/init.d/ivman-user) presuming it is still needed seems to work ok..but it mounts the folders as root cant find out why it's not mounting them for the user specified in the script?
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ivman

NathanZachary · Moderator Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 2613

What filesystem is the MP3 player using? If it is *FAT*, then it should simply require the built-in kernel support for vfat, and HAL installed.
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tomm7 · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2007 Posts: 37

mp3 player is a bad example only has problem when formated for data storage ext2/3 etc no problem with fat

baeksu · l33t Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 609 Location: Seoul, Korea

KDE and Gnome will automatically detect the USB devices, and you can choose an option for automounting from the settings. So you don't need to run ivman.
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