Thunar doesn't automatically mount removable devices

This is a newbie question, but I cannot find how Thunar automatically mounts removable devices. I've read the wiki and it says that I don't have to do anything else besides installing Thunar. Once I plug in my removable device, it can be seen in lsblk, but I need to manually mount it using the terminal. Thunar doesn't do anything to make it appear in the file system. Did I miss something?

karol wrote:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Th … me_Manager says
While Thunar can support automatic mounting and unmounting of removable media, the Thunar Volume Manager allows extended functionality, such as automatically running commands or automatically opening a Thunar window for mounted media.
so thunar-volman shouldn't be required.
Exactly. However, I tried to install the volume manager, but it didn't help. It should work without it.
karol wrote:Do you have gvfs installed?
I didn't (judging from the fact that writing gvfs in the terminal didn't find anything). I installed it, but nothing changed. How to configure it?
Last edited by decas (2014-02-16 14:43:16)

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The above should be one line, modulo wrapping. Then start diskarbitrationd:
/sbin/SystemStarter start Disks
You should probably check /dev and see what disks are already mounted. (without the USB stick) I assume that the services that mount removable media are now started so insert the stick and see if it appears mounted in /Volumes. Otherwise, check /dev and see if there's a new disk. If it only appears in /dev, you can use the standard mount command to mount it. If it doesn't appear in /dev then you might reboot into Single User Mode and repeat the procedure with the USB stick already inserted. If none of that works then this must not be the right method and you have my apologies.
Gary
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How do you mount a device like normal unix?

Hi,
I'm trying to secure some files by encrypting a disk image (DMG file). I'm doing everything through the terminal so that I can script it.
For the first step I want to mount the disk image file. But, I'm struggling to find a way to mount the disk image so that it becomes a normal part of the file system. Under Linux I would do something like this:
$ mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /home/steve/projects/privatemount
Under Mac OS X, I can't get it to work. I found a hdiutil command but there are all sorts of issues between it and the Finder. The closest I've got is this:
$ hdiutil attach -verbose -nobrowse -mountpoint /Users/steve/Projects/privmount /Users/steve/Projects/private-encrypted.sparseimage
Which mounts it as a directory from terminal (great), and doesn't show it up in the Finder as a removable device (great). But, the problem is that you can unmount it (hdiutil detach) while you're accessing the directory i.e editing a file. This is no good because I could lose files (seems like a bug to me). If I edit the file from vim from the command line then lsof shows the file being used. But if you access the file through the Finder i.e edit it with textmate, then lsof doesn't see the file access!
Does anyone know what the magic incantation is to mount a device from the terminal as you would a normal UNIX, have the Finder not show it as a removable device, and ensure that you can't unmount it while a user is accessing the contents?
Thanks,
Steve

Hi Bill,
Yeah that works but it shows it as a removable disk (as your second post pointed out). I'm hoping there's a solution where it won't show up as a removable disk. It's just annoying not being able to stitch together a seamless file system from a bunch of disk images!
Thanks,
Steve

Udev: add mountpoints for removable devices

Yet another solution to the removable devices problem.
After a minor system overhaul I finally decided to get rid of a bunch of static mountpoints I had in /mnt. I checked Arch wiki, and what I saw there, well, raised some questions. I mean, it's udev, it's not supposed to be pretty, but pmount with a fixed user, as a recommended solution? Ugh.
So I came up with a perl script that modifies /etc/fstab dynamically and creates mountpoints under /mnt, but doesn't actually mount anything. This way user mounts do not require any specific handling, and overall it looks nice and simple.
To my slight surprise I couldn't find any good scripts that would do this even outside of the wiki (which is strange, btw, because the solution is obvious), so I decided to put it here. Maybe I'm not the only one who thinks auto-mounting is never a good thing.
https://raw.github.com/nkf/udevh/master/udevh-sd | https://raw.github.com/nkf/udevh/master/README
Comments, suggestions etc. are welcome.
Please check the source and udev rules before doing anything, it's fstab after all.

tomk wrote:As long as you're happy.....
Well, yeah. I'm not a big fan of the current udev implementation, but this time it all worked very well.
As for the man page, well, it's not really set in stone. Ok, I admit I didn't read it, in Arch at least, but anyway, there must be reasons to call it static. mount is a simple tool, it's clear how it works, that's the only file it reads, and I see no intrinsic features in mount that would require fstab to be static. I'd say it's more of an self-imposed challenge to treat it as static, and not a necessity. At least for current implementation of mount, and current format of fstab, with "user", "users" etc.
Also, the kludgy automount suggestions on the udev page - pmount with fixed user ZOMG - are deprecated now in favour of udisks-based setups.
Maybe it should be removed then, or at least clearly labeled as deprecated?
Because when you read the page, it comes as a suggested solution. And udisks, well, I skipped that section at all, partly because it was above "Auto mounting USB devices", and party because it talks about KDE, Gnome and automounting.
Oh, and btw: I've just noticed that the fixed user in that example is "tomk" ;-)
falconindy wrote:I think you're in the minority of folks who think dynamically modifying a system config file as crucial as /etc/fstab is a good thing.
Somewhat off-topic, but /etc/fstab is one of the least critical files in the system, and one of the easiest to fix.
I didn't check with the current version, but if I'd was unable to boot without fstab, I'd call it a bug in initscripts.
.:B:. wrote:There's nothing more easy than udisks - and there are plenty of frontends to it, like udiskie. (...) Reinventing the wheel is not always necessary.
Well, I'm reading about udisks now, and the problem is, when I want a wheel, I want a wheel, not a Segway.
I like my system to be simple (arch way and all), while this thing wants d-bus, polkit, some frontends and org.freedesktop.stuff.die.must.java style configuration variables just to be able to type "mount /mnt/sda1". Easy, maybe, for a given values of "easy"; simple, anything but.

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