Accessing usb in text

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On 23.09.2013 02:59, Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 22 September 2013, Joe Zeff sent:
>> It will be in /run/media/$USER/$DEVICE where $DEVICE is the drive's 
>> label if you set it, or whatever the OEM set up if you haven't.  BTW, 
>> /run/media itself only exists when there's need for it, so looking
>> there ahead of time won't work.
> 
> Does automounting even work in text mode?  I thought Gnome or KDE stuck
> their oars in to do automounting.
> 

For such a thing in the background has to be some kind of the
automounter, certainly.
e.g. devmon & udisks
http://igurublog.wordpress.com/downloads/script-devmon/

> If it doesn't, one could always manually mount it.  Find out what it's
> device is (e.g. dmesg|tail), then mount /dev/sdb1 /media (or mount point
> of your own choice).
> 

And the 'bashmount' is a quite nice tool to mount, also.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bashmount/
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=13272


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