On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > But the autofs package contains automount, and that is what handles USB > drives, etc. Seriously, this isn't the case with the normal gnome automounting of usb devices. I've just tried uninstalling autofs and it merrily continues working. I've not poked under the skin of gnome to know what actually goes on, but figured udev's involved at some stage along with dbus. udisks seems to support that logic, but I really don't know the specifics. jh