[Novalug] Sorta Solved - Ubuntu Heron and automounting USB disks

[Nick Danger]

I'm still not completely sure what I did. I deleted everything under
.gconf/system/storage and replugged in the drive. I used the right click
properties menu to select mount points, unmounted the drive, plugged it
back in and OH! Almost... I ended up with misc_, backups_ instead of
misc and backups. So I unmounted, deleted the remnants of the drives
under /media and tried again and voila, its working. At least its
working today. Hopefully tomorrow it will continue to mount this drive
under misc and backups like i want it to...

Nick

Nick Danger wrote:
> I found some of it. Its under ~/.gconf/system/storage  Now how to
> understand it exactly, it is just xml files so it shouldn't be hard, but
> thats another issue :-) I'll let you all know if I figure anything out.
> In the meantime, all advice accepted.
> 
> nick at hackermonkey.com wrote:
>> I had this problem with Gutsy but I didn't worry much about it. Now that I
>> upgraded to Hardy, the importance has increased and I need to solve it.
>>
>> I have a few USB devices, namely two USB hard disks and two USB thumb drives.
>> These are what I use most often. One drive I have set so when I plug it in it
>> comes up at specific mount points and my user can move files to/from etc. The
>> thumb drives work the same way.
>>
>> The new USB drive that I am trying to comes up as /media/usb0, /media/disk and
>> /media/disk-1. (there are 3 partitions) The problem is that the regular user
>> cannot write or unmount it. I have removed the mount points under media and
>> they were recreated. I changed the ownership of the mountpoints but that only
>> works until the drive is unplugged/replugged.
>>
>> Where does Ubuntu get its automount information? I know I can click the icon and
>> change info on the mountpoints but that only works if the user has permissions.
>> Where does that information get written?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Nick
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