LinLog

Looks like I finally got around to publishing my first article on LinLog. You should see it in the sidebar. It's a quick tour of setting up automount. It's not a step-by-step tutorial for newbies - more like a quick overview for people who generally know what they're doing.

I've been meaning to do this for a while now, but playing around with Kubuntu the other day finally got me to do it. I haven't used a lot of Linux distributions, so I don't know how most of them work, but Kubuntu didn't support automount for my USB drive out of the box. What it did was use some sort of hotplug detection or something to create an icon on the desktop and mount the drive. This is better than Slackware, which does absolutely nothing by default, but it's not great. Call me crazy, but I like the fact that I can copy things to my JumpDrive, close my file manager, and the drive is automatically unmounted by the time I can reach over to pull it out.