Bug 177383

Summary: Cannot mount hotplugged devices present in fstab when the computer is on
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: Germano Massullo (Thetra) <germano.massullo>
Component: widget-devicenotifierAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: finex, peter.penz19, wilderkde
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Germano Massullo (Thetra) 2008-12-10 14:06:10 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.1.3)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

I have a sata rackbox where I hotplug hard disks when the computer is on.

Each hard drive is present in the fstab with a unique UUID and a unique mount point

for example:

UUID=2dffd502-6cee-4398-9d32-9276abed51f6 /media/diskone ext3 defaults,user,relatime 0 0

UUID=ed10dfe6-7df0-4c47-a512-89779d731475 /media/disktwo ext3 defaults,user,relatime 0 



So, if I turn on my computer with the disk "diskone" inside the rackbox, it will automatically mount it under /media/diskone, and it's ok.


But if put inside the rackbox the disk "diskone" when the computer is on (hotplug), the computer does not auto mount it and I have to go to the shell and write:
sudo mount /media/diskone

Doing that, Linux will reconnize that I'm trying to mount the disc with the UUID 2dffd502-6cee-4398-9d32-9276abed51f6 in the mount point that is listed on the fstab.

I'd like KDE to do that automatically for me.
Because Dolphin reconnize the hotplugged disk, but cannot mount it because is already mentionned in the fstab and for some strange reasons it cannot mount it by itself.
Comment 1 FiNeX 2008-12-10 14:17:29 UTC 
@Plasma: I've moved this bug to plasma/widget-notifier because it is the default KDE 4 utility used for mount/umount devices

@Peter: maybe you could be interested too.
Comment 2 Jacopo De Simoi 2010-05-19 00:12:52 UTC 
KDE SC 4.4 comes with a device automounter daemon, which you can configure to work as you wish;