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How do you automount without a desktop environment? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 month ago by superkret@feddit.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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What's the easiest way to make external USB drives automount, without adding them to fstab? It should just work even if someone else hands me their flash drive.
I'm running sway on Arch if that matters.

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[–] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 13 points 1 month ago

You shouldn't just automount external drives. That's a recipe for trouble.

What's wrong with manually mounting them? Pretty sure the desktop environments also require you to push a button (eg, select the drive in file manager) to mount external USB drives.