Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Slackware 13 Automount USB Drive

Scratch this: It worked once and now it doesn't work upon reboot!!!
This is so frustrating I may just give up on Slackware altogether.

With Slackware 12.1 and 12.2, USB drives automounted out of the box. Not so for my Slackware 13 installation. The obvious thing was to check which groups I was already a member of, using the command

groups

in Konsole. It said I was a member of cdrom, but not plugdev, so I used the command

gpasswd -a [user] plugdev

and logged out. I logged in again, double checked that I was in plugdev, and tested. Nothing. I didn't know what to do and Google didn't help. I added myself to a bunch of other groups, but none worked.

Some more extensive searching took me here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/12.0-and-hal-read-this-566862/

Long story short, I had to open the file /etc/login.defs as root and add plugdev to the line referenced in that post. I logged out and back in, and then I could automount USB drives.

11 comments:

  1. please change the "owner" to "user" for the cdrom in /etc/fstab and it will work

    This was mentioned in CHANGES_AND_HINTS.txt in the root of the slackware-13.0/ dir.

    cheers
    /macavity

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