[svlug] usb device automounting on linux

[Akkana Peck]

Joe Brenner writes:
> since those days I haven't changed anything that I remember... but now 
> I'm trying to do similar things with other usb devices, but I find that

What are these "other usb devices"? If you run dmesg right after
plugging in the device, what shows up?

> Pointers to write-ups on how linux usb automount stuff *really* works

If you're really asking about automount, that's normally handled
by hal (the Hardware Abstraction Layer) these days. But I don't
think you are if you're running icewm and you're willing to type
your own mount commands. 

Creating the /dev/sdXX devices is normally handled by udev (but
sometimes with hal's help, depending on the distro and the device).

Neither hal nor udev is very well documented, though you already
found the main udev doc.

There are some issues with particular types of devices, like
flash card readers with multiple slots. And of course, there are
lots of USB devices that don't act like a usb-storage device at
all, like Canon cameras that require gphoto2. If you give more
details on what devices you're trying to use and what distro+version
you're using, folks might be able to help you figure out why the
device isn't showing up.

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