Volume management without Nautilus
So I’ve been playing around with WMII for a while now, soaking in the glory of tiling window managers. One thing that’s a bit inconvienient is easy automounting. I don’t want to have to manually create a directory in /media and mount each and every teeny-tiny usb drive I might plug into my system.
Turns out that recently the Ubuntu/Gnome folks have decided that Nautilus will be handling the automounting of drives and such instead of the gnome-volume-manager. This is all well and good if you’re using nautilus, but for console-junkies it’s not so helpful.
The gnome-volume-manager package in the repo is compiled with the “–disable-automount” configure option, so to enable it we have to recompile:
First make sure you have all the required libraries to build:
sudo aptitude build-dep gnome-volume-manager
Then download the source:
apt-get source gnome-volume-manager
configure:
cd gnome-volume-manager-2.24.0
./configure --enable-automount --disable-dependency-tracking
build and install:
make
sudo make install
Then just add to your startup script and you should be up and running.
Don’t forget to use gnome-volume-properties to configure the volume manager to actually automount.
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By Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock, November 22, 2008 @ 1:46 pm
Sweet. I haven’t given this a try yet, but I’ll add it to my long list of Linux todos…
Thanks!
By gumby, July 26, 2009 @ 12:12 am
Didn’t work for me. When I run it, it quits right away.
I’m running Jaunty 9.04. PS shows something called gvfs-hal-volume & gvfs-hal-volume-manager running. I wonder if these are getting in the way of things.
By Spencer, July 26, 2009 @ 7:46 am
Yeah, I think they’ve changed some of the volume management in Jaunty. I’ll post again when I get it under control.