Volume management without Nautilus

Spencer — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:40:05 +0000

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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Volume management without Nautilus