[ale] USB pen drive killed?

[Pete Hardie]

Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> Yes, but you have to work at it a bit.
> 
> Here's how to create an automount icon for the KDE desktop:
> 
> 1. you are going to have to add a line to fstab, if it isn't 
> already there. Mine looks like this -- all on one line:
> 
> 
> /dev/sda1  /mnt/widget   vfat    
> noauto,owner,nodev,gid=users,uid=nobody,quiet,umask=2 0 0
> 
> The OS recognizes my pen drive (which I call widget) as <sda1>
> and you will have to determine where yours shows up, probably 
> sda<something>.
> 
> I created the directory /mnt/widget.  You might prefer /mnt/pendrive
> Whatever.
> 
> 2. then take a look at /etc/auto.misc and (as root) add the
> appropriate line to that file.  Mine looks like this:
> 
> widget	-fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,gid=users,uid=nobody,umask=2	
> :/dev/sda1   [NOTE: there must be whitespace between the options list
> and the address beginning with the ":"  Also note that the "widget"
> is the NAME of the device.  That could be Bob, or Daniel, or pendrive --
> anything you like.
> 
> 3.  Now right click on the KDE desktop, then >Create New > Link to
> application. Open the "Execute" tab and add this line to the command
> block:  kfmclient openProfile filemanagement file:///misc/*
> You might want to cut and paste that line as spacing and capitalization
> are critical. Then replace the "*" with the "name" of the device as
> specified in /etc/auto.misc  In the example above the "name" is 
> "widget"
> 
> 4.  Only one small, tricky bit left. The standard delay on unmounting
> a file system is 5 minutes or  300 seconds and I assume you don't want 
> to wait that long. So, as root, open in an editor /etc/auto.master
> and look for a line like this:
>    </misc     /etc/auto.misc>
> 
> edit that line so it looks like this:
> 
>    /misc     /etc/auto.misc  --timeout=1     [that's two spaces between
> the .misc and the --]
> 
> That will cut the delay on unmounting the file  system to one second.
> 
> All that's left is replacing the stock icon. Right click on the icon
> and open the Properties dialog box and click on the icon as shown in
> the dialog box. That will bring up a list of icons. Pick one.
> 
> You're done. Next time, plug in the pendrive and click on your desktop
> icon. You should have access to the drive. Just remember to CLOSE the
> window (and thereby unmount the drive) BEFORE unplugging the thing.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 

I will try this soon....thanks for the info!



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