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Subject: Re: Automatic mounting of removable meadia
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Heinrich Rebehn wrote:

> 
> Yes. Although it does not provide automatic mounting upon insertion of 
> the disk (like windows does), it would be a solution.
> Unfortunately "man amd" does not say anything about the format of the 
> map for a local device and i was unable to find anything in 
> /usr/share/examples. Can anyone give me an example?

This article provides a tutorial for adding this functionality using amd. 
It may be a little out-of-date, but it has worked for me in the past.

	http://www.daemonnews.org/200202/automounting.html

This solution mounts the media on access, and unmounts it on quiescence. 
Not exactly "like windows does", but still useful.

Hope this helps.

~brian