Re: Automount of USB pen-drive and its display on the desktop

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 14:44 +0530, Subodh Soni wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am using the latest nautilus from CVS HEAD and observed this when
> using a USB pen drive. 
> As soon as I insert USB pen-drive, there is no notification on desktop
> and there's no icon on the desktop displaying that a new drive has been
> mounted (Not even when I open on the "Computer" from the desktop).
> The auto-mounting of the USB pen-drive happens because when I run mount
> from the terminal it shows USB as mounted and I can also access the
> directory and move stuff in and out of that directory.
> 
> I would like to know if this is at present an expected behavior or a bug
> should be opened in bugzilla for this behavior.

This is expected to work, yes. It might be a problem with fam on your
system or something. gnome-vfs monitors /etc/mtab to find out about new
mounts.

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