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Ok that's great. Makes sense to have it there, along with countless others (gdm, powernowd, firestarter, etc)

Thanks for pointing that out! I shall edit the original post and include that if I...

You don't need autofs. If you are using the gnome-volume-manager (default Ubuntu/GNOME installation = yes), it should handle the automounting.

All udev does is set the device node for the...

The version of udev in Dapper doesn't seem to have or use udevstart. I ended up re-booting to affect the changes when I tried this in Dapper.

I'm sure there must be another way though.

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Thanks for the feedback.

I actually wrote this after a thread where several people were encountering the same issue with USB devices. It does look like hard work, but it's mostly documenting...

I feel so cheap for doing this, but that was a lot of work. I would love to know if anyone has tried this, and how it went.

I'm sure many people who use removable devices have noticed that sometimes they don't appear where they were before.

You plug your USB drive in, and use fdisk to find the device node and then...