[CentOS] Problem in Mounting Exaclibur 4GB USB Pen Driveon Centos4.0

Mon Mar 12 17:29:20 UTC 2007
Mark Hull-Richter <mhull-richter at datallegro.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of John Summerfield
> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 3:09 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problem in Mounting Exaclibur 4GB USB Pen
Driveon
> Centos4.0
> 
<snip>
> Probably, at some mount after /media/usbdisk was created, I explicitly
> mounted it
> Note that the exact mount point depends, but it's always under /media.
> 
I noticed a similar problem (and reported it) earlier, but what I've
seen is that the longer my system is up, the more likely it is to start
failing to mount my flash drive.  After a while, I have to mount it
manually, and to change any files on it, I need to be the root.

Can anyone tell me/us what process recognizes the flash drives on
insertion?  (I.e., what is the automount process?)  Or is there one?
I'm not entirely clear on how CentOS/RH/Linux recognizes (or fails to)
flash drives....

Thanks.

mhr